Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires ...

When a young Black poet in a canary yellow coat dazzled audiences at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, high school teacher Melissa Alter Smith was ready. Using a lesson plan from a friend and fellow ...

That is a haiku, a 500-year-old Japanese poetic form whose first and last lines always have five syllables, its middle line seven. Today, grade school teachers in the U.S. are turning to it as a new ...

Rosa, along with a dozen other teens, was at a Youth Summit hosted by local spoken word educational program The Word.

Poet, activist and educator Teresa Dzieglewicz is the most recent of those who have participated in Northwest’s Visiting Writers Series, her session taking place Jan. 27.

I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

Explore the power of Poem Renovation in transforming poetry education. Poem Renovation is a free website designed for self-expression, allowing users to take words from a poem, mix them up, and ...

“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 ...