What Kind of Lover Are You? This Poem Might Have the Answer.

William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...
Counterview

Margins of modernity: A postcolonial analysis of Ashok Vajpeyi’s poem 'That Old Muslim'

Noted Hindi poet Ashok Vajpeyi’s poem “That Old Muslim” occupies a singular place in contemporary Hindi poetry for its ...
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Poetry blooms into art at LHS

Poetry has bloomed into art in Christina Bausch’s English I classes at Lawton High School.Bausch has hit upon a novel way to ...
Education Week

When Poetry Meets the Common Core

Poetry can be intimidating. As students, many of us were taught that the goal of reading a poem was to “understand” exactly what the poet was trying to say. No small charge. The Common Core State ...
The Atlantic

When a Poem by a White, Male Author Smells Less Sweet

The Best American Poetry, an annual anthology of verse, contains an unusual contributor’s note this year. It’s written by Michael Derrick Hudson, a white poet who writes under the pseudonym Yi-Fen ...
Slate

A.O. Scott’s Poetry Lessons

For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ ...
The New York Times

Day 3: This is a New York poem. Once you learn it, you can take it anywhere.

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza ...
The Atlantic

Why Teaching Poetry Is So Important

16 years after enjoying a high school literary education rich in poetry, I am a literature teacher who barely teaches it. So far this year, my 12th grade literature students have read nearly 200,000 ...