"The beating of a butterfly’s wings," observes Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, "or the beating of syllables in a word, ignite dynamics of meaning, light, or darkness in the human heart. Poetry ...

April serves as National Poetry Month, and to celebrate, the Ballston Spa Committee on the Arts recently announced it would hold its third annual “Random Acts of Poetry” series.

In this lesson, high school students write ‘I am’ poems in their home language and then translate them into English, building ...

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 ...

This year marks 250 years since the American Revolution, and the Minnesota America 250 Committee is launching a statewide calendar of celebrations, programs and events for the country’s 250th birthday ...

Charles Gadbois shares a collection of spiritually inspired poems reflecting on faith, human experience, and the ...

Practice with the attention to detail and language choices needed for poetry writing can help elementary students with other kinds of writing as well.

James C. Clemens Jr shares a heartfelt collection of poems exploring faith, family, perseverance, and personal ...

Free professional development program in Chicago invites educators to deepen and energize poetry instruction The 2026 Institute will explore the theme "Poetry Speaks" through seminars, hands-on ...

The new book is about a young writer who's hired by a prestigious but dysfunctional poetry journal. Says the author, "There's a lot of crazy stuff going on." ...

ProMosaik Poetry is an open project of Art, which is convinced of the importance of poetry and poetry therapy in a hard time characterized by ...