THERE is something about the art of poetry which induces a defensive posture. Even in the old days when the primacy of poetry was no more challenged than the primacy of Heaven, which is now also ...

I have said before, and will keep on saying until my strength gives out, that there is nothing more important in society than teaching the growing generations to express themselves in good, clear, ...

In recognition of National Poetry Month, the University home page features stories from the April 6 Princeton Weekly Bulletin on two faculty members who represent some of the many creative approaches ...

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 ...

Poetry, perhaps more than any other genre, shows us how important it is to connect with a real human presence. T.S. Eliot: British poet, inspecting manuscripts. Undated photograph. The class I am ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dr. Paul Cummins is making a powerful case for the relevance of poetry (and how to teach it) with his latest book. In Voice & Verse: Joys and How-To’s of Teaching, ...

Salome Agbaroji wrote her first poem, a rap, in the second grade, and she’s been crafting rhymes ever since. Now the 18-year-old Harvard student is best known as the nation’s youth poet laureate. “I ...

A dispiriting new survey has found that nearly a quarter of schools teach poetry only once a year or less. What a shame that is Schools are facing considerable barriers to teaching poetry in the ...

Most Fridays, Mary Lee Hahn, a 5th grade English and language arts teacher at Wright Elementary School in Dublin, Ohio, has her students pick a poem and recite it to the class. She’s been doing this ...