Today she is also the author of a children’s poetry collection, “Swirling Scoops of Whimsical Magic” published by The Jam ...

Dawn Potter, a poet and teacher from Portland, was named Maine’s seventh poet laureate on Friday. Potter was announced as the ...

Sunny Rey Azzarito is the founder of Poets Underground, an organization that creates events, workshops, and outreach programs ...

Poetry can literally give you chills. A Free Press intern explains why — and how to start reading it without fear.

Oregon School for the Deaf's Emma Keen is the state's new Poetry Out Loud champion and will compete in the national ...

In the spirit of celebrating the arts in its myriad forms, here are four songs you may not have known were adapted from poems ...

KHARTOUM, April 8 (Xinhua) -- My name is Hamouda Ibrahim. I am 52 years old, and until recently I taught Arabic in Khartoum. My days would begin with the school bell and end with marked notebooks -- ...

IT IS vital to explore the queer experience, no matter how intimate, according to filmmaker, film historian, and author Nick Deocampo. In 1983, his pioneering documentary, Oliver, captured the reality ...

Local teacher answers her students' questions about autism during Autism Awareness Month.

After teaching preschool for 11 years in the small central Illinois towns of Paris, Bellflower, Saybrook, and Arrowsmith, Carol Bergfield found the classroom where she'd spend the rest of her ...

Maybe this is how Rodgers and Hammerstein did it when creating some of the greatest musicals of our lives. Write a melody, ...

It wasn’t until I began writing for my local newspaper that I realized the importance of my classes in humanities, literature ...