I often used the poem “If I Were In Charge of the World” by Judith Viorst in my 7th grade English class. It is an accessible piece and my students seemed to relate to it. I hoped the poetry ...

Refaat Alareer, a Palestinian poet and English professor who taught in Gaza, posted to social media on Nov. 1 one of the last poems he would share with the world. In hindsight, it seemed to ...

She manages this career, in part, by embracing poetry as a form that is meant to be not just quietly read, but also performed aloud. A former theater major who gets a charge out of performing ...

The first public charge law in the U.S. was codified in 1882. Lazarus' poem, "The New Colossus," was written in 1883, and a plaque with her words was not cast on the Statue of Liberty until 1903.