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In a very personal celebration of the opening of Playland Amusement Park for the 2025 season, Westchester County’s Youth Poet ...

California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use ...

What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis and primordial slime?

The poetry that I was working on back when I was in in graduate school seemed to directly challenge that. I was writing about the late 1950s and the whole confessional movement, where there were ...

Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve taught in the past, and they might say a ...

School champions participated in online ... You can submit an original, unpublished poem or collection of poems. The submission will be judged as a whole and must be a maximum of 600 words ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous ... than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.” His metaphor certainly encompasses this new canon, but it also describes ...

I've loved poetry my entire life and this whole experience has been incredibly special." Gio Calandrella, a freshman who also attends Grant High School, was named runner-up. Calandrella would ...

Discover how a dandelion grows from a delicate fluffy seed into a bright yellow flower, enjoy beautiful poems which lift the spirits and heal the body, don’t miss a last visit to the home of ...

Discover how a dandelion grows from a delicate fluffy seed into a bright yellow flower, enjoy beautiful poems which lift the spirits and heal the body, don’t miss a last visit to the home of ...