Why Poetry Matters

Please visit ToThisDayProject.com To This Day When I was a kid I used to think that pork chops and karate chops were the same thi...

After the Day of Silence lesson ... 1. WRITE A POEM - no minimum - no maximum -  no word count - no required form. Only requirement: Be...

(The following is a lesson I posted to my courses via Canvas LMS. Students posted to the discussion board. It may have been one of the most ...

Every now and then, usually in the spring, I listen to Seamus Heaney . If you are interested in poetry, you must listen to Heaney's No...

POET BREATHE NOW by Adam Gottlieb everybody’s got something to say about poetry            because rhymes peak in meaning shed...

When teaching American Literature, I find it difficult to cover the poetry throughout the year that I would like to do. With AP exams and tr...

"The Bookcase" Seamus Heaney Ashwood or oakwood? Planned to silkiness, Mitred, much eyed-along, each vellum-pale Bo...