Poetry, perhaps more than any other genre, shows us how important it is to connect with a real human presence.

When a young Black poet in a canary yellow coat dazzled audiences at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, high school teacher Melissa Alter Smith was ready. Using a lesson plan from a friend and fellow ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires ...

The National Book Foundation announced on Thursday the winner of the 2018 Innovations in Reading Prize, its annual social-impact-through-literature award. Each year the foundation honors one ...

CHICAGO, Feb. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Poetry Foundation is pleased to announce that its Summer Poetry Teachers Institute will return to Chicago July 13–17, 2026, bringing together K–12 teachers ...

When Kate Rushin is teaching third-graders how to write persona poems using the story of the Amistad captives, she’s connecting them to a history that is personal to her. Rushin is an in-demand ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story incorrectly listed the number of performers who could qualify for prizes of $1,000-$20,000, plus money for their schools, in the national Poetry Out Loud ...

The National Book Foundation has named the Academy of American Poets and its Teach This Poem project as the winner of the 2018 Innovations in Reading Prize, a $10,000 prize annually awarded to an ...

I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

Free professional development program in Chicago invites educators to deepen and energize poetry instruction The 2026 Institute will explore the theme "Poetry Speaks" through seminars, hands-on ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Free professional development program in Chicago invites educators to deepen and energize poetry instruction CHICAGO, ...