In his blog, “The Power of Patterns in teaching,” published ... clinic also shows that when young students practice reading poems, they can develop fluency and expressive reading.

Reading “Poem for Aretha” offers a chance to contemplate ... “Knoxville, Tennessee” stands as a reminder of the beauty in ...

Over six decades after she first hit the scene, Judy Collins remains one of the most iconic artists of the ’60s folk movement ...

Langston Hughes poems guaranteed to move you. L angston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets ...

Perhaps she helped me find solace and purpose in living, cherishing the power of words and imagination. W.H. Auden’s poem in memory of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats remains in my heart and ...

Spoken word poet Sekou Andrews demonstrated the power words can have in difficult ... (such as chills or goosebumps) to hearing poetry read aloud. These physical responses are connected to the ...

Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and ... This poem is also the opposite of everything I’ve just described. It’s as wild a piece of verse as you’ll ever read, seething and unruly ...

Recently, reading through the cookbook Jerusalem ... a toddler whom a soldier unremorsefully shoots in the eye. The poem’s power comes from its final lines, in which the child dispassionately ...

“Poetry and reading are a way of learning the world and opening our eyes and ears to what other people are experiencing.” Two of her early poems were published in 1975 in “Balancing ...

I haven’t written a single poem in months. I’ve lived humbly, reading the paper, pondering the riddle of power and the reasons for obedience. Later, on my way to a wedding, I wrote to a friend ...