When I’m Sick of Doomscrolling, I Turn to This Poem

Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” by Robert Hayden, reflects on what art can (and can’t) do in tumultuous times. Our critic A.O. Scott ...
Education Week

With Larry Ferlazzo

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 ...
The Land

A life characterized by verse: How one Cleveland poet found himself through writing

When Cleveland poet Philip Metres was a senior in AP English at Wilmette, Illinois’ Loyola Academy in 1987, he was assigned a ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Companionship of a Poem

During the three decades that I have taught English at Lehman College, I’ve witnessed some dramatic and turbulent changes. They have included protests against the American presence in Vietnam and the ...
NPR

Write a poem to a friend for NPR

For the latest "Morning Edition" community poem, Rachel Martin and poet Kwame Alexander ask listeners for poetry submissions. This round, the call-out is for poems in letter, or epistolary, form.