When a young Black poet in a canary yellow coat dazzled audiences at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, high school teacher Melissa Alter Smith was ready. Using a lesson plan from a friend and fellow ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires ...

CHICAGO, Feb. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Poetry Foundation is pleased to announce that its Summer Poetry Teachers Institute will return to Chicago July 13–17, 2026, bringing together K–12 teachers ...

When Kate Rushin is teaching third-graders how to write persona poems using the story of the Amistad captives, she’s connecting them to a history that is personal to her. Rushin is an in-demand ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story incorrectly listed the number of performers who could qualify for prizes of $1,000-$20,000, plus money for their schools, in the national Poetry Out Loud ...

Explore the power of Poem Renovation in transforming poetry education. Poem Renovation is a free website designed for self-expression, allowing users to take words from a poem, mix them up, and ...

One of my favorite digital features is the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, in which a new poem is delivered, daily, via Web or email. I don’t look at it all the time, but fairly often, and I am ...

The National Book Foundation has named the Academy of American Poets and its Teach This Poem project as the winner of the 2018 Innovations in Reading Prize, a $10,000 prize annually awarded to an ...

“I have a dream.” You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during the 1963 ...

That is a haiku, a 500-year-old Japanese poetic form whose first and last lines always have five syllables, its middle line seven. Today, grade school teachers in the U.S. are turning to it as a new ...