It’s been described as embarrassing, clichéd or “unhelpful singsong.” Many poets dislike it too, but it’s a style they’ve learned from each other.

Poetry has bloomed into art in Christina Bausch’s English I classes at Lawton High School.Bausch has hit upon a novel way to ...

Since most college students resist all poetry as arcane, elitist, or even inscrutable, why not give them material that’s supposed to be hard, that requires active reading to make provisional sense of ...