Like so many English teachers, I first came to hear the name Sarah Kay from her Def Jam Poetry performance of  " Hands ." She ha...

Around the Chapel      of Old St. Paul Blow the dancing leaves      of the coming Fall. In the morning breeze      they leap and fly ...

Sugar Hill, Sugar Hill where life's so sweet that pride rings out on every street.  Suga...

A book of poetry and art created by two friends, one black the other white, one an artist the other a poet. Bound together by their brothe...

A few years ago I was looking for some spoken word poetry performances on YouTube in the hopes of motivating my students to put passion an...

The famous William Carlos Williams poem "This is Just to Say" was used as the inspiration for an entire book by Gail Carson Levin...

Traci Dant's collection of poems all revolve around one family reunion and the joy that pours forth from such an encounter. Every poe...

You want to start having some conversations with your students about bullying ? Show them this incredibly emotionally raw spoken word poe...

I'm sitting here in my home office on this lazy Sunday afternoon (lazy only because it's midwinter break and I don't have to g...

This is Just to Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive m...

In honor of National Poetry Month , a nearby library invited poet laureate Billy Collins to come and speak at the local community college....

"I'm madly scribbling words down now, rapidly one after another. (Poems are like rain...

Broet Laureate Brian McGackin has created this side-splitting book aptly titled Broetry , for the men in the world who - I'm not going ...

Armed with a newspaper and a magic marker, Austin Kleon makes the process of writing poetry more about chiseling away instead of starting fr...

I am so excited to read the book Newspaper Blackout by Austin Kleon. Every year during National Poetry Month I have my students create Fou...

Normally I do poetry on Friday, but this deserves a posting of its own. This morning during 3rd hour I had two seventh grade girls knock on ...

I've noticed that a lot of people who have book blogs post a poem every Friday. Seeing as how I love poetry, I thought I would also ind...

I feel the need to divert from the theme of this blog for a moment to post a video of a slam poetry performance on YouTube that I just recen...