Month archive: May 2017

An Experiment in Blended Learning: Bringing Poetry in America for Teachers into My Classroom

May 25, 2017 Caitlin Ballotta Rajagopalan Leave a comment

by Khriseten Bellows This post was written by Khriseten Bellows, who led a group of high-school students in a blended-learning version of the Poetry in America for Teachers: The City from Whitman …

Bono and US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera read “Hum Bom!”

May 5, 2017 Leah Reis-Dennis Leah Reis-Dennis Leave a comment

A few months ago, we sat down with U2 frontman Bono and US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera to read the Allen Ginsberg anti-war poem “Hum Bom!”

Nas breaks down “It Ain’t Hard to Tell” for Poetry in America

May 5, 2017 Leah Reis-Dennis Leah Reis-Dennis Leave a comment

Prof. Elisa New sat down with hip hop legend Nas to do a close-reading at “It Ain’t Hard to Tell,” a track from his iconic 1994 album Illmatic.