Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly bushes he often passes.

When children write poetry, they often jump in with only a vague idea then follow where it leads — adults can do that, too, ...

Through the medium of poetry, ... perform their poetry from 12-1 p.m. Friday as part of "Have a Poem on Me." Audience members can participate in a sample poetry lesson and then write and perform ...

So The Poetry Lesson ends on an honest, searching, appropriately self-deprecating note, and that’s a good thing, because it helps resolve the book’s attitude. Codrescu is not impossibly hard ...

Next Generation Science Standards. Dimension 1: Practices. 3-PS2-1: Science and Engineering Practices: Scientific Investigations Use a Variety of Methods. Common Core State Standards – English ...

The Poetry Lesson Neither a novel nor a memoir but mimicking aspects of each, The Poetry Lesson is pure Andrei Codrescu: irreverent, unconventional, brilliant, and always funny. Codrescu takes readers ...

Civic poetry is often generated by news: Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” at the start of World War II, or the legion of poems written and still being written on Sandy Hook or Pulse night club ...

Poetry Matters: Lessons From America’s First Inaugural Poet Introducing a new monthly poetry column, just in time to offer inaugural poet Richard Blanco some advice from Robert Frost.

The Beastie Boys called it the “drop” and Carlos Andres Gomez knows it as “the Pinch,” but everyone knows the buildup to the moment the music pauses and then switches to the… ...