Build Your Stack: Where’s the Poetry in Your Classroom Library?
This blog post was written by NCTE member Clare Landrigan as part of Build Your Stack,® a new initiative focused exclusively on …
This blog post was written by NCTE member Clare Landrigan as part of Build Your Stack,® a new initiative focused exclusively on …
Poet Juan Felipe Herrera was the 21st United States Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017. This passage is excerpted from …
“All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” ~ William Wordsworth On April 7, 1770, William Wordsworth was …
“I enjoyed learning about poets who I was unfamiliar with. It felt like as a teacher, I was celebrating a …
World Poetry Day is recognized every year on March 21. This is the day on which UNESCO recognizes the moving …
Now that it’s March, it’s the perfect time to host a Poetry Bracket Tournament! The idea is to create a …
During the month of February (and beyond!) we shine the spotlight on texts written by African American authors. This month, …
In the 1940s, the poet Langston Hughes was a major author who worked in many different literary forms, from poems …
On January 29, 1845, American author Edgar Allan Poe’s famously eerie poem “The Raven” was published in the New York Evening …
Curious about the NCTE and Library of Congress connection? Through a grant announced recently by NCTE Executive Director Emily Kirkpatrick, …