Lest you think screens have completely taken over teens' minds, note that more than 4 million high school students have been reciting poetry for fun and competition for the past 20 years as part of a ...

“I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you. Everyone else who reads it doesn’t get it. They may think they get it, but they don’t. This is the sign ...

For the last seven or eight years, the thing I have read most often and most eagerly—more than history books, or novels, or short stories, or nerdy academic monographs, or The Economist—is ...

Whether or not you are a poet or poetry reader, this hour will open your eyes to the power of poetry. We’ll explore why we need poetry and how it can connect us, heal us and help us pay attention to ...

In 1968, Margaret Ackerman of the University of Arizona authored a paper for The English Journal in which she included a summary of what poetry meant to most of her students: “sentimentality, ...

High school students from around the country are here in D.C. this week to compete in the 20th annual Poetry Out Loud National Finals. Students memorize and perform poems in a variety of styles and ...