The University of Arizona Poetry Center and UA honors students from the College of Humanities know that teaching can be the best way to learn. The Poetry Center holds “Family Day” one Saturday each ...

Editor’s intro: Today, Bertha Rogers, teaching artist with Teachers & Writers Collaborative, shares how poetry can teach the world and make students feel at home in it. She also shares tips and ...

The ability to do this makes future learning in reading and writing that much more accessible for children, however, we also know that preschoolers and the first year of formal school is the best time ...

Poetry Month is often the time we remember to teach and read poems with kids and help our children write poetry. But you can read and write poetry with kids all year long–not just during Poetry Month!

April is National Poetry Month. Poems are integral to American culture and education. In fact, right now lines from Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” may come to mind that you learned in English ...

Inspired by the success of its Poem-a-Day effort, the Academy of American Poets announced it is launching a new program meant to introduce poetry to the classroom. Beginning September 2, the group’s ...

As Missouri’s 7th Poet Laureate, I asked News-Leader Editor-in-Chief Amos Bridges what he thought about establishing a regular weekly column about poetry. He liked the idea, suggested the title, and ...