PROGRAM ASSISTANT POSITION Poetry in America’s list of projects is expanding, and so is our team. We are in search of a full-time Program Assistant to help with administrative … … Read more
by Max Shenkin This post is one in a short series of reflections by students at Health Sciences High and Middle College in San Diego, CA, who enrolled in … … Read more
by Lillian Son This post is one in a short series of reflections by students at Health Sciences High and Middle College in San Diego, CA, who enrolled in … … Read more
by Lillian Son and Max Shenkin The following blog posts were written by Lillian (Lilly) Son and Max Shenkin, students at Health Sciences High and Middle College in San … … Read more
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 … … Read more
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!" … Read more
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. … Read more
Stephanie Yewdell, an English Language Arts teacher at Success Academy Harlem North Central, reflects on the fear and joy she encountered teaching poetry in the middle school classroom-- with a little help from Poetry in America. … Read more
Poems present a unique set of challenges to readers—and to teachers. They look and often sound different from prose, for one thing, and they sometimes require that we use a special … … Read more
