The Poetry Concentration allows students to pursue work on and about poetry through a variety of experiences and courses. By combining academic and practical work and independent projects, students ...

Op-ed: To prepare students for the complexities of community work, two educators turn to creative writing to help ignite ...

John Ernest, chair of the Department of English at the University of Delaware, wants to bring poetry to life, so sometimes he’ll start his classes with a dramatic reading of a poem. On more than one ...

Too often, students receive the message in their English classes that poetry exists to be analyzed. They learn terms, strategies and complicated acronyms to remember them—all in the service of solving ...

(This is the final post in a three-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) Georgia Heard, Leah B. Michaels, Michael Silverstone, and Keisha Rembert shared their idea’s in Part Two.

Well, there are poetry-writing classes, and then there's the 1959 poetry-writing class taught by Robert Lowell at Boston University, with Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton among the students. Kathleen ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Kent County students and their teachers are learning that spoken word poetry is an excellent way to engage a class, to bring the text of a subject to life, and to encourage student ...

One of the highlights of my first three years as a literature professor at MIT—and indeed, of my 15-year career as an educator—has been the recent discovery that some of my students, past and present, ...