Fourth-grader Cade Maxwell stood confidently before a room filled with his peers from First Odessa Christian Academy and their parents and began to read a poem from his self-authored book, “The Buddy ...
I remember the best poetry lesson I ever had as though it was yesterday; it was at Low Valley Junior School in Darfield, near Barnsley, on a freezing cold morning in 1965. The date is significant ...
Join us at 11:00 for a National Poetry Day 2022 Live Lesson! We want to hear how your pupils use their senses to describe their environment. Send ideas from your 7-11 year-olds to ...
In this week of the Presidential Inauguration, it must be said that poetry serves another function when deployed in public: it is classy, it adds tone and the aura of high-minded literary prestige.
As National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’re closing up our poetry inbox. All month, we’ve invited people to send us their own original poems, responding to a prompt each week. We’ve heard from ...
In October 2017, Kang registered Shiguang Poetry as a nonprofit, and then spent three months dragging her large suitcase on the rugged mountain roads. She managed to persuade 13 schools to start the ...
Laguna Beach makes art look easy, but city officials learned over the last year that one form of art is actually quite difficult: poetry. The official poet laureate program is wrapping up its ...