Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ Let America Be America Again ” by Langston Hughes. What do you notice about the ...

Listening to the Poem: Enlist two volunteers and listen as the poem is read aloud twice. Write down any additional words and phrases that stand out to you. You can listen to a reading of the poem. You ...

Musicians have long taken inspiration from poetry for their work; here are four rock songs that pull from well-known poems.

Jamila Minnicks and Jo Angela Edwins are featured authors at the Pee Dee Poetry and Fiction festival. Both use their writing as a means to advocate for change.

Try the following Thanksgiving language arts activities with preschool and elementary-aged students. Activities can be ...

Let nature hypothesize man’s indifference to it. Let nature take a turn at saying what love is!

The self-described “feisty mermaid” was born in Santa Cruz, “between the redwoods and the beach” and also grew up in India, ...

This week's Jefferson Award winner is a Berkeley woman who has promoted child literacy for four decades, as host of a community TV show encouraging young poets.

Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the defeat of Grendel – a creature whose exact form is still debated. Depending on ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

For anyone who was a teenager in the nineties or later, though, she was already well-known. Her poems are a constant on British school exam syllabuses, although one, ‘Education for Leisure’, was ...

Use themes and big ideas driven by essential questions to frame your investigation. Integrating contemporary art and themes into teaching requires a shift from predominantly technique-driven ...