Hanif Abduraqqib. Sarah Kay. Elizabeth Acevedo. Clint Smith. Do any of these names sound familiar? How about Amanda Gorman? All of these writers are part of America’s thriving contemporary poetry ...

Editor’s note: This collaborative poem by third-graders in Denice Crettol’s class at Riverside School in Greenwich was inspired by Cynthia Rylant’s poem, “In November.” The students also drew the ...

Podcast host and teacher Lauran Woolley says she got reported to the Board of Education for reading to her former second-grade class a poem about freedom. Speaking on this week’s episode of Teachers ...

Five Peoria students from Whittier Primary School won the 2025 Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards and will be celebrated at ...

CROMWELL — Residents at Covenant Village played host to a group of second-grade students from Edna C. Stevens Elementary School May 1. They heard poetry the children wrote as part of the “Poem in Your ...

CROMWELL >> Normally, the hallways in Town Hall are quiet, with what conversation there might be conducted in mostly low tones. But that was emphatically not the case Thursday, as the building was ...