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Teachers can have students create comics based on poems to better understand their themes and spark meaningful conversation.

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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 ...

I read poems to her, we choral read poems and worked on word families. Lani enjoyed printing words in the same family on long strips of paper. We hung them on the walls of my office, ...

When reading or writing a poem, we engage in a conversation with ourselves. Our perceptions open, and our imaginations take flight. The late great Maya Angelou said about writing poetry, ...

I kept reading poetry, but for the last, I don’t know, 25 or 30 years, I’ve been very much a casual reader of poetry—not someone professionally invested in it, not someone who specializes in it.