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Teachers can have students create comics based on poems to better understand their themes and spark meaningful conversation.
Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case for celebrating abundance and variety.
April is National Poetry Month. Poets share advice on how to make a meaningful connection with the art form. One tip? Think of the poem like a movie or a play — and you're the director.
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Reading poetry is a convention like anything else. And you learn the rules of it like anything else—e.g., driving a car or baking a cake. 9.
If you read the rest of his poems, you’ll feel the struggle and injustice that are the hallmarks of Hughes’s writing, while here, you’ll feel a joy that no human should be denied. 6.
You can read the rest of this beautiful and moving poem in Harper’s 1901 poetry collection Idylls of the Bible. And be sure to read these Amanda Gorman poems for a modern-day perspective on ...
(Read any number of poetry blurbs and they'll assume you're in on the discussion.) It seemed problematic, at best, to suggest that this was solely the fault of an overburdened ...
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The Math department was strongly represented on Read Across America Day. Josie Florio shared three poems with her seventh grade classes that covered topics such as fractions and long division and ...
On this week’s episode, A.O. Scott joins host Gilbert Cruz to talk about the value of close reading poetry. And the Book Review’s poetry editor Greg Cowles recommends four recently published ...