HAGERSTOWN -- Crystal Brown's devotion to poetry took her into the war zone. Now she brings her poetry, stories and writing lessons to area children. It was a slightly overcast summer day, and kids ...

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.

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 have a dream.” You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during the 1963 ...

In his 1974 anthology Revolution of the World: A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry 1914–1945, Jerome Rothenberg introduced American poet Bob Brown to those of us of a certain generation, ...

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 ...