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.' ...

Dr. Shanna Peeples, WT’s Dr. John O’Brien Distinguished Chair in Education in the Department of Education in the Terry B.

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 ...

Island resident Dorothy Smith sees poetry as a graceful and artful expression that can surface deep emotions. Dorothy listens ...

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

At Broadway’s Studio 54, Jean Smart takes a break from winning Emmy Awards as a sharply dissatisfied comedian on “Hacks” to ...

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 ...