So far this year, my 12th grade literature students have read nearly 200,000 words for my class. Poems have accounted for no more than 100. This is a shame—not just because poetry is important ...

Dr Kendra Coulter is a labour studies professor and she’s on a mission to find poems that will help her students at Canada’s Brock University understand the issues of class, poverty ...

Kara said she hopes her class's poem, which they have since illustrated in a book and posted a video online of themselves reading, helps more kids learn about Canada's residential school system.

Take some introductory literature class that forces you to memorize poems, heaps and gobs and mounds of poems, old poems. Preferably, this class will be taught by some elderly gentleman composed ...