WEST SAND LAKE — Betty Murphy's West Sand Lake Elementary first-grade class stood in a row before their schoolmates Thursday afternoon, ready to recite by memory the 32-line poem they wrote. Murphy ...

The storms may batter them, but resilient trees inspire fairy tales, myths, horror stories and even philosophy. And hopefully, you The most visible result of the high winds we celebrated in last month ...

Joyce Kilmer wrote one of the most famous%2C most beloved%2C most parodied poems His ode to trees is known by almost everyone%2C critic said But rote memorization of poetry is on the way out in ...

MINNEAPOLIS — In the Bryant neighborhood of south Minneapolis, there's a tree that doesn't ask for much — just a little kindness and the willingness to connect. "Read a poem, write a poem, take a poem ...

The author of this week's poem, Katherine Gallagher, was born in 1935 in Maldon, a gold-mining town in central Victoria, Australia, and grew up on a farm in nearby Eastville. She lived in Paris for a ...

He loved poetry. He wanted me to read mine, but I couldn’t write fast enough, so I’d bring books of poetry with me. When I wasn’t in a pose, I would read poetry to him. After about 20 years, we ...

While it may be April Fools’ Day, today also marks the start of National Poetry Month. (No fooling.) So we’ve been asking educators on Twitter to share the classroom activities and resources they use ...