April is National Poetry Month. Poets share advice on how to make a meaningful connection with the art form. One tip? Think ...

To introduce students to close reading poetry and using writing to understand reading; to prepare them to write a 4-6 page essay on a single poem Students have read selected poems and the chapter on ...

I have, though, found a reprieve from my anxious inattention: poetry. More specifically, the poetry of survival—verse written in the shadow of political extremity. I have noticed this is true ...

Rachel Trousdale’s work, for me, is part of a long American tradition of resisting, recognizing, and disputing our old American tradition of anti-intellectualism.” The Cardinal Poetry Prize, first ...

"People are taught that the way to engage with a poem is by trying to understand it, master it and write an essay about it," says Choi. "That keeps us from developing personal relationships with ...