I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

This poem is part of a WHYY series examining how the United States, four decades later, is still processing the Vietnam War. To learn more about the topic, watch the 10-part documentary “The Vietnam ...

As National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’re closing up our poetry inbox. All month, we’ve invited people to send us their own original poems, responding to a prompt each week. We’ve heard from ...

I remember the best poetry lesson I ever had as though it was yesterday; it was at Low Valley Junior School in Darfield, near Barnsley, on a freezing cold morning in 1965. The date is significant ...

They might read like simple poems, but carry life’s deepest lessons. These compositions by world’s greatest poets offer lessons untold. Shakespeare describes the seven stages in man’s life, almost ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are your favorite ways to teach poetry? April is National Poetry Month. Poetry lessons can be great learning opportunities and big hits with students—whether they ...

Jane Wong’s poem grapples with the making of a self that’s dependent on childhood, history, comparison and societal expectations. Growing up can be overwhelming as we figure out where we came from, ...

Sometimes, what a poem does not say is the most important part. That’s what Beth Copeland found while writing “Falling Lessons: Erasure One,” a poem that explored her father’s experience with ...

Each week, we'll share a variety of videos, articles, webcasts, resources, and more from around the web — all curated by Asia Society Texas Center staff to reflect the broad interests and goals of our ...

Man I came to be. I realize certain hero's had an effect on me. There was Robin Hood. There was Tarzan. There was Zorro in the Night. They Gave me the tools. In which to live my life. Robin taught me ...