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 ...

Gallileo was a poet…Lewis Carroll was a mathematician…Emily Dickinson wrote poetry about mathematics. What do math and poetry have in common? A lot, according to RIT’s Marcia Birken, professor of ...

My freshman year of high school marked my formal introduction to poetry. It wasn’t a great first impression, as one might imagine happens when pushing Shakespeare on a bunch of 14-year-olds. It lulled ...

The Stokes Brown Public Library will be offering a monthly poetry class taught by local poet and preacher David Dean beginning in November. The class will be held in the Louis R. Draughon board room ...

John Ernest, chair of the Department of English at the University of Delaware, wants to bring poetry to life, so sometimes he’ll start his classes with a dramatic reading of a poem. On more than one ...

ST. CLOUD — A group of writers gathered in a room at the Great River Regional Library Thursday evening, sipping cups of Somali tea and enjoying slices of pie as they perused poetry displayed in little ...