Born in Chicago and raised in Alabama, WJ Lofton’s creative work breathes life into the intricacies of identity, race, grief, ...

Golden Apple Kelsey Olsen: "Teachers are tasked with such vastly important jobs. I perform my job with the utmost responsibility.' ...

The words of late Peninsula writer Irene Adler will live on, thanks in part to the posthumous publication of a collection of her poetry, "Bone Flute: A Woman Speaks." An event honoring Adler's legacy ...

Driskell is also working with youth poet laureates on various programs throughout the region. She will serve in the role of ...

The Newport branch of the Campbell County Public Library is one of only 6 libraries in the U.S. selected to display a ...

There is an old saying that teachers don't tell students what to think, but what to think about. A new study from the University of Kansas has found that even beyond helping students understand ...

About 60 years ago, a young Dick Stahl was sitting in a college literature class when the teacher challenged his students to write a poem in the peculiar rhythm of ...

I kind of laugh a bit when I break it down for them. A poem is worth 5 per cent of your grade whereas an essay is worth 17 per cent. The two reading comprehensions they do are worth 17 per cent.

She’s a poet — and she’s always known it. A NYC public school teacher ditched her day job to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a bard — and now writes poems for strangers on the ...

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza ...

Yorktown High School English and creative writing teacher Melanie McCabe read a selection of poems from her first book, “History of the Body,” at Westover Branch Library on Monday, Jan. 7.

It was more like my children kind of broke me open and all these poems started pouring out,” she said. “It was like mind, body, and spirit – broke.” Loryn Brantz and her kids, Ronen, 2 ...