Following a weekend of fear and violence in Charlottesville -- where white supremacists and hate groups descended on the city and a car plowed through a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one and ...

It's been called the small pond in the great literary ocean. And with April being National Poetry Month, as established by the Academy of American Poets, may we ponder anew, or renew, the pond of ...

I'm supposed to analyze this poem (Elizabeth Bishop's 'Sestina'). I've spent a few hours here pulling obscure references from the thing, and frankly I don't feel like I'm even the neighborhood of ...

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The new question-of-the-week is: What are your favorite ways to teach poetry? April is National Poetry Month. Poetry lessons can be great learning opportunities and big hits with students—whether they ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...