Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ Let America Be America Again ” by Langston Hughes. What do you notice about the ...

Listening to the Poem: Enlist two volunteers and listen as the poem is read aloud twice. Write down any additional words and ...

Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ The Crystal Gazer ” by Sara Teasdale. What do you notice about the poem? Note any words or phrases that stand out to you or any questions you might have.

Hamza Mohamed is an eighth-grade writer from Minneapolis. He is a member of 826 MSP’s After-School Writing Lab and Young ...

This poem is from a series of prose poems called ‘The Uncured World.’ Following major surgery to remove a tumor in my spine, ...

Tanaya Winder is an author, a singer, and a motivational speaker from an intertribal lineage of Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute, and Duckwater Shoshone Nations, where she is an enrolled citizen. We ...

Oliver de la Paz is the author of five poetry collections, including Boy in the Labyrinth (University of Akron Press, 2019). He is a founding member of Kundiman, and will be the Guest Editor for ...

How else I know I saw a ghost is the child seemed so composed, happy, and it was way too early in the morning for someone so young to be out riding alone.

Poets.org: Welcome to the Guest Editor Q&A, hosted by the Academy of American Poets. I’m Mary Sutton, senior content editor at the Academy, and I’m here today with the Guest Editor for November, Laura ...

Since when / was the breach / and what broke, a door ...

Warm-up: (free-write) What does this time of year make you think about? Why? What images or ideas come to mind? Why? Share your writing with a classmate or small group. Reading the Poem: Silently read ...

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