by Brett Vogelsinger The poem "First Fig" by Edna St. Vincent Millay is so well-known it has become idiomatic.  Whenever we say ...

 by Brett Vogelsinger Believe it or not, the least-used shelf in my classroom library is the poetry shelf.  I share a poem every day of the ...

by Aubrey Sebestyen “It’s so boring.” “I never understand it.” “Not really my thing.” Each year, my sophomores express their…misgivings with...

by Susan Barber I am teaching multicultural literature for the first time this year and wanted to start with a poem that would get our conve...

by Katherine Schulten Back when I was a brand-new teacher in 1987, I had the life-changing good fortune to be part of the New York City Writ...

by Jason Hepler Admission: while I am a middle-aged married man and father of four, I have had a man crush on Jimmy Fallon ever since his ti...

by Kristy Trammel For years I, like every other English teacher ever, shared Martin Niemoller’s, “ First They Came ” with students as they s...

 by Brett Vogelsinger When I first read Eve Ewing's poem "testify" on the Poem-a-Day email from poets.org , the bright optimi...