Teens

In 1954, on a small coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean, the United States detonated a weapon designed to annihilate every living thing in its path. That year, Frank O’Hara...

Whenever a guest drops by unexpectedly, my eye goes to the pile of mail on the counter, the tumbleweeds of dog hair roaming freely across the kitchen floor from our...

As a visiting teaching artist for the Poetry Foundation, I facilitated a workshop titled “GLYPH-cation! Learn & Create Hybrid Poetry.” We created graphic poems and also explored how visual elements...

Read or listen to Kimiko Hahn’s poem, “Likeness: A Self-Portrait,” several times. A few questions you might consider, either in writing or in conversation with others: The title instructs us to...

Read Douglas Kearney’s poem “Every Hard Rapper’s Father Ever: Father of the Year.” Then, listen to the poet reading this poem out loud at least once. A few questions you...

What I didn’t know before reading Ada Limón’s What I Didn’t Know Before is where research—scientific, philosophical, historical, or any other kind—belongs in the poetry writing process. What I learned after...

The roots of the word exhibition are instructive: from ex "out" + habere "to hold." An exhibition holds out a particular narrative, a thesis, and framing of a subject. A...

Look closely at a typical map, and you will notice that it is covered in language—the names of countries, types of rivers, cardinal directions. Language helps shape geography and vice...