by Brett Vogelsinger Teens have an complicated relationship with poetry.  On one hand, we have some students pouring their hearts out in...

by Brett Vogelsinger Some poems are so simple and beautiful that overthinking them, as English teachers are prone to do, can risk losing t...

by Brett Vogelsinger We read the poem "Little Citizen, Little Survivor" by Hayden Carruth about a rat living in a woodpile, ob...

by Hilary Czaplicki One of my favorite poems to use near the start of National Poetry Month is “Did I Miss Anything?” by Tom Wayman. ...

by Elizabeth Howlett Students read the poem "Demeter’s Prayer to Hades"  by Rita Dove silently as it is projected on the screen....

by Drew Sterner  My class reads the poem  "My Father's Tie Rack"   by Joan Larkin twice -- once aloud and the second time ...

by Joy Kirr I was first introduced to the poem “ My Papa’s Waltz ” by Theodore Roethke when Michael W. Smith (co-author of Literary Elem...

by Brett Vogelsinger The poem "In Two Seconds" is longer than most poems we use in a poem a day activity, but it is also relevan...