by Rama Janamanchi This year, with masks, social distancing, and other barriers that we have separating us, Richard Blanco’s poem “One Today...

 by Rama Janamanchi In my classroom, we watch Chimamanda Adiche’s The Danger of a Single Story early in the year. I use it as a touchstone ...

by Donte' Demonbruen James Mercer Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. Langston Hughes was an African Ame...

by Carol Jago Teaching the sonnet is a ubiquitous (and too often tedious) poetry lesson focusing on accented syllables and rhyme schemes. ...

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

by Kelsey Hughes Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem, “We Real Cool” is a perfect choice for the classroom for many reasons—its brevity (which is, of...

by Brett Vogelsinger There is always something special about hearing a poet read his or her own words, and perhaps something extra special...

by Pernille Ripp My classes read the poem “Hugging Jose” by Jason Reynolds because they love the work of Jason Reynolds, and also beca...

by Brett Vogelsinger I must confess, I am a little partial to the poem "Revenge" by Taha Muhammad Ali because I was present for ...

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...