Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry. From the prehistoric poems of the Nile ...

In the literary world, she's "off the grid." Kay Ryan, 58, has taught remedial English at College of Marin part time for 33 years. Living quietly in Fairfax, she devoted the bulk of her time to ...

When teaching children to read, it’s good to find ways to make reading as enjoyable as possible, that’s why we created a list of 10 short inspirational poems for children. Just like every painting in ...

When I tell you that Louise Glück’s “A Village Life” is a book of poems set in a quietly dying agricultural community, probably in Italy, probably some time between the 1950s and today, and that its ...

Who doesn't like being romanced every now and again? It's the little things that count, and what better way to show a little love than by sending short love poems to that special person in your life?

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse. By Elisa Gabbert I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me” (“you fit ...

I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

Since March 2020, the lives of billions of children been turned upside down due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Today, children around the world are still out of school and experiencing the effects of ...