Students expressed themselves through poetry that advocated for peace in their communities, homes and schools. Their poetic expressions were made during the Veterans For Peace 12th annual public ...

Photos by Don Nelson From left, competitors in the 2025 Poetry Out Loud contest at The Merc Playhouse last week were Liam ...

J. Ivy credits one of his high school teachers with pushing him to pursue a spoken word career. Today, he was at Hyde Park Academy High School encouraging students to go for their dreams. ‘’First and ...

When Peter Kahn became an English teacher at the Chicago-area Oak Park and River Forest High School, he was terrified of teaching poetry. "Poetry was my least favorite subject as a student, and my ...

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

Lincoln University students will read their original poetry to a public audience Dec. 3 at Missouri River Regional Library in Jefferson City. As part of an undergraduate poetry workshop class taught ...

LAKEWOOD, Ohio -- A poetic collaboration between the Lakewood Public Library and Lakewood City School District students is garnering national attention. Beginning last fall, the Lakewood Public ...

APPLETON - Mya Koffie is no stranger to difficult subjects, but it’s in the writing of poems she feels released of their burdens. That was one of the main thoughts that inspired the 17-year-old junior ...

The poet Rumi wrote, "Let the beauty we love be what we do." With a new school year underway, many teachers are drawn to their classrooms by just that sense of love. We're thinking about it at Morning ...

Alexa Aguirre was only 10 years old when she wrote her first poem — an admiration of her mother’s eyes. Poetry provides an outlet for her emotions, she said, because it’s easier for her to express her ...

Earlier this month, University of Minnesota graduate student torrin a. greathouse won a major award from Poetry, a leading monthly poetry magazine, for her poem “On Confinement.” The poem, which was ...