NO ONE EXPECTED the huge response that "Can Poetry Matter?" generated, especially not its author. I wrote the essay to address -- as directly and candidly as possible -- the increasing cultural ...
Navajo poet, author, medicine man and former Navajo Nation Vice President Rex Lee Jim died last week at age 63. In a 2019 interview, Lee discusses translating the Diné language and worldview.
In this lesson, high school students write ‘I am’ poems in their home language and then translate them into English, building ...
Most people would never put Shakespeare and Kendrick Lamar in the same sentence. One composed sonnets for the Elizabethan ...
Poetry can be used as a tool to re-analyse and present qualitative data through a new lens, as Sam Illingworth explains Poetry is an incredibly versatile medium for anybody working with qualitative ...
April is National Poetry Month—perhaps a good time to review the positive aspects of reading and writing poems. Poetry is a genre of writing in which succinct, vivid, and intense language is given to ...