One of the oddities that has emerged out of years of government-inspired curriculum development is the notion that there are perfect lesson-plans which you follow and these will deliver perfect ...

I remember the best poetry lesson I ever had as though it was yesterday; it was at Low Valley Junior School in Darfield, near Barnsley, on a freezing cold morning in 1965. The date is significant ...

Children’s author and poet Laura Mucha has teamed up with National Poetry Day to attempt a Guinness World Records title for giving the largest poetry lesson, with more than 200,000 children from 1,200 ...

Join us at 11:00 for a National Poetry Day 2022 Live Lesson! We want to hear how your pupils use their senses to describe their environment. Send ideas from your 7-11 year-olds to ...

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 ...

Catullus (c84-c54 BC) wrote some of the most sublime poetry in the late Roman Republic, and some of the most obscene. (Image: Lesbia and her Sparrow, 1860, artist unknown) The Gilgamesh Epic is often ...

CHICAGO, Feb. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Poetry Foundation is pleased to announce that its Summer Poetry Teachers Institute will return to Chicago July 13–17, 2026, bringing together K–12 teachers ...