Seventh-graders Lindsey Fitzgerald and Finley Garvey were selected for publication in the Creative Communication fall poetry contest. Only the top 45-55% of entries are included in the publication ...

If that’s you today, then give these beautiful and moving poems, selected by women including ... to recognising love that is nourishing and good, that smooths life’s path instead of making ...

D.N. “This Is Not a Small Voice” by Sonia Sanchez Adrian Neibauer’s fifth grade students in Colorado have loved this ... Shihab Nye As the name might suggest, this is another good poem to teach after ...

By the seventh grade I was sitting ... I wanted to be a good student, but I just couldn't do it. By the time I got to the eighth grade I got tired of embarrassing myself and my family.

and that’s not good for their appetite or their temper.” The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I wonder if I will miss the moss,” by Jane Mead, and his own poem “Mother.” ...

When I was invited to talk about the civil service exams and Tang Dynasty poetry to a class of seventh graders, I consulted my go-to text, An Anthology of Chinese Literature, Beginnings to 1911, ...

Each year as part of NCW, ACS sponsors an illustrated poem contest for K-12 students in the US ... to first place and $150 to second-place national contest winners in each grade category! National ...

I don’t care if it’s a good poem or not, but the fact that it exists is proof positive that poetry can not just change, but save lives. Now, to my second point. It’s true that writing poetry ...

I would gladly give all my (not-very-good) poems and a large chunk of my (respectable) scholarship to have written just this poem: Richard Wilbur’s “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World.” ...

I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit bookshelves on April 1, 2025 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...