I suck at poetry. I’m just no good at appreciating it. And I’ve always felt that’s a shameful character defect, especially for a voracious reader such as myself. So I recently set out on a ...

Wayne Lin feels most alive when writing poetry. Originally from Taiwan, Lin came to the United States in 1970 as a graduate student. Decades later, after raising three children, welcoming eight ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are your favorite ways to teach poetry? After publishing 56—yes, count ‘em, 56—posts, videos, infographics, and podcasts over the past two months providing ...

John Ernest, chair of the Department of English at the University of Delaware, wants to bring poetry to life, so sometimes he’ll start his classes with a dramatic reading of a poem. On more than one ...

The Queen Consort has met with Joseph Coelho, the UK's Children’s Laureate, to mark World Poetry Day, which takes place on 21 March. In a video shared to The Royal Family's official social media ...

In his blog, “The Power of Patterns in teaching,” published in The Robb Review, Oct. 4, 2022, Dr. Timothy Rasinski explains that English has many word-patterns that can be used to teach reading. In ...

This week’s guest is Laura Robb, who lives in Winchester, Virginia. A longtime teacher and author, Laura’s first book was published in 1994. She is widely known for her educational books about reading ...

2020 was a lost year. Anxiously watching the coronavirus spread across the globe, we missed sharing so much with others, including the four seasons with their shifts in color and temperature. Then ...

(This is the final post in a three-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) Georgia Heard, Leah B. Michaels, Michael Silverstone, and Keisha Rembert shared their idea’s in Part Two.

GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — Children ages four to 13 are learning the building blocks of language through movement. Kids Poetry Basketball teaches literacy through 26 different games. Activities ...

One tribute to the late John Lewis began by noting his love of W. E. Henley’s “Invictus”; it seems to have been Nelson Mandela’s favorite too, as affirmed in Morgan Freeman’s reading of the poem.