In our hyper-connected world, some may find that it’s increasingly difficult to slow down long enough to read and truly enjoy a poem. A professor at the…

U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins’ search for poetry to include in Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, led him to believe that “clear, reader-conscious…

Educators say that most children love rhymes. And they say that poetry can be helpful in many ways as children learn to read, write, listen and express…

Tue 5/7/13 Noon & 7pm Look back through your middle school journals and you'll probably find some poems scrawled in the margins. When did you stop writing…

Schools and communities around Vermont are reading and discussing “Poetry 180: A Turning Back To Poetry,” – an anthology of contemporary poetry edited by…

The former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins wrote that high school is “all too often the place where poetry goes to die.” He set out on a mission to…