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Culture
Project: Write a Poem
Let your language take a break from the daily grind and have a moment of glory. For this project, we're writing poetry.
Education
How Do We Break the Pattern of Poor Teaching for Poor Children?
Teaching that encourages creativity and critical thinking is increasingly reserved for affluent children.
Culture
Intermission: We Dare You to Not Get a Crush on This Poetry Bomber
A Miami artist sneaks around thrift stores and turns used clothes into literary gems. It's poetic vandalism.
Education
Literacy as a Weapon: A Radical Approach To Teaching That Put Bronx Teens on the College Track
The Power Writers program teaches, "If you don’t learn to write your own life story, someone else will write it for you."
Culture
Submissions: Display Your Poetry
We thought it was time to take a break from texts and emails and write some poetry. Check out these awesome submissions.
Education
How a Poet Inspired 1,000 People to Become Teachers
In 2000 slam poet Taylor Mali set a goal of inspiring 1,000 people to become teachers. This month, he reached it.
Culture
Best Hate Mail Ever: The Chinese Hate Poem
Fresh from a new online collection of historical documents, an ancient Chinese tradition shows us a better way to send hate mail in 2011.
Culture
Intermission: Bill Murray Reads Poetry to Construction Workers
In this video (after the jump), the beloved actor Bill Murray reads poetry to construction workers at the site of the Poets House national library...
Education
Poetry Slams Spur Student Literacy in the South Bronx
In the birthplace of hip-hop a local nonprofit is teaching a different kind of rhyming: the fine art of the poetry slam.
The Community Board
Neglect and Bionics
These two pieces of writing discuss subjects I feel strongly about: conservation and historic preservation. In the spirit of this magazine, these...
The Community Board
Judith Sloan in a work-in-progress performance of Yo Miss! Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide Double bill with Chen Lo and the Liberation Family
Judith Sloan in a work-in-progress performance of Yo Miss! Teaching Inside the Cultural DivideDouble bill with Chen Lo and the Liberation Family...
The Community Board
Do You Haiku? at Knight Arts
$60 Million Initiative by Knight Foundation to Improve the Arts in South Florida. * Submission Period: Nov 1, 2009 to Nov. 21, 2009 *...
The Community Board
Poetry
I fell in love with poetry in the late 70's after I saw its power. I was a fifth grader a Richard E. Byrd School located in Cabrini Green and my...
Lifestyle
Restaurant Reviews That Live Forever
Restaurant reviewers often claim their craft is an art, but is it also the shortcut to undying prose?
