In honor of National Poetry Month (and Friday .... whew, it’s Friday!), we felt compelled to pass along a poem that a teacher sent to us. Jennifer Martin, a veteran English teacher at Wootton High ...

Twenty poets, storytellers and musicians met at the Camille Creek School on the campus of the Napa County Office of Education on Nov. 11 when Superintendent of Schools Barbara Nemko and I invited ...

Hanif Abduraqqib. Sarah Kay. Elizabeth Acevedo. Clint Smith. Do any of these names sound familiar? How about Amanda Gorman? All of these writers are part of America’s thriving contemporary poetry ...

English teacher Will Lyon gave the school poetic confirmation of love after the November election The world that English teacher Will Lyon’s students live in is glorious, violent, fascinating, ...

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 ...

An award-winning AP English teacher who read a homoerotic poem by the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in class was forced to resign after complaints about the sexually explicit nature of the work and about ...