In this week of the Presidential Inauguration, it must be said that poetry serves another function when deployed in public: it is classy, it adds tone and the aura of high-minded literary prestige.

Teachers are turning Taylor Swift’s lyrics into powerful tools for teaching poetry and literary devices. By connecting students’ love for music with ELA standards, lessons become more engaging and ...

Fourth-grader Cade Maxwell stood confidently before a room filled with his peers from First Odessa Christian Academy and their parents and began to read a poem from his self-authored book, “The Buddy ...

I remember the best poetry lesson I ever had as though it was yesterday; it was at Low Valley Junior School in Darfield, near Barnsley, on a freezing cold morning in 1965. The date is significant ...

Romanian-born Louisianan poetaster and longtime NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu is not necessarily popular among conservative Christians. Perhaps that’s because his radio essays skew so far to the ...

As a young conservatory student in 1993, I was talking with a classmate. He told me that his teacher, a prominent trumpet player in the New York Philharmonic, would begin each weekly lesson by having ...

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 ...