It's National Poetry Day, you guys. I don't know about you, but poetry was my least favorite part of English class. I could write you an essay defending my right to have any opinion or come up with a ...

To celebrate National Poetry Month, The New York Times started a completely brilliant Tumblr, Times Haiku, wherein an algorithm combs through newly published articles for sentences that potentially ...

Twenty-five years ago this month, the Academy of American Poets designated April as national Poetry Month. They want to remind the public that poets have an integral ...

Haiku is my favorite form of poetry. I admit it’s partly because they’re short. But, it’s mostly because of the poets’ ability to shake up my mind, which opens new possibilities in my thinking. My ...

3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their ...

Standard 1. Students read and understand a variety of materials. Standard 5. Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience. Standard 2. Students know physical and human ...

Haiku poems have reflected humans' experiences in nature for hundreds of years, including observations of bugs and other wildlife. Recently, researchers analyzed which insects were mentioned the most ...

Anshika Lal (left) and Caprice Jackson, of Tiny WPA, install the Rain Poetry exhibit at Vernon Park. Some of the haiku, written by elementary students, will be permanently visible. Others will be ...