I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

In his 1974 anthology Revolution of the World: A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry 1914–1945, Jerome Rothenberg introduced American poet Bob Brown to those of us of a certain generation, ...

It was Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s sharp-edged prose in Civil Lines: New Writing from India (published by Ravi Dayal) that I ...

Fourth-grader Cade Maxwell stood confidently before a room filled with his peers from First Odessa Christian Academy and their parents and began to read a poem from his self-authored book, “The Buddy ...

These lesson plan units were developed to work with the video-short Discovering Angel Island: The Story Behind the Poems and the Pacific Link website. There are three elementary level lesson units and ...

Here is a Take 5 Mini-Lesson that makes it quick and easy to share this poem! Build on the simile in Blackaby’s first stanza (“Scientists are like explorers . . . ”), and identify some famous ...

As a young conservatory student in 1993, I was talking with a classmate. He told me that his teacher, a prominent trumpet player in the New York Philharmonic, would begin each weekly lesson by having ...

Jacqueline Woodson, one of America’s premier writers of young adult and children’s literature, is out with her second novel for adults called “Another Brooklyn.” It’s her first in 20 years, and ...