by Todd Nesloney When I was growing up, I hated poetry. It didn’t interest me and it made zero sense. In reality, the only kind of poems ...

by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater Click to Enlarge Image Sometimes I find my way into a poem through the window of meter. I adore playi...

by Zachary Sibel This year I wanted to try something new when it came to teaching poetry, so I made a strange connection. I thought about...

by Brett Vogelsinger The repetition of grammatical structures, known as parallelism, works especially well for poets because it establishe...

by Rose Birkhead Prior to my middle school teaching days, I had the opportunity to teach self contained 2nd and 3rd grade. I learned abo...

by Michelle Ambrosini "Afternoon on a Hill" by Edna St. Vincent Millay I will be the gladdest thing      Under the su...

by Zachary Sibel As an English teacher, I find myself asking, “How do I get students to appreciate the classics?” Steven Lynn says...

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 Jeff Anderson After reading aloud the poem "Flame" by C. D. Wright twice, students look at it’s structure with the poem dis...