CommonLit 2026 weaves its Civic Responsibility theme and project-focused culminating tasks into the 5E instructional model, aligning with ELA standards for speaking, listening, and performance.

Spoken Word – a performance art where words are conveyed to an audience in poetry, rap or music – is powerful, accessible and diverse. Deborah Nicholls-Lee shines a spotlight on the emerging ...

American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th presidential inauguration at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2021. Patrick Semansky/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Editor’s note: Not long after Amanda ...

O poetry! What will we do with you? You’re in the headlines again for the only reasons you ever are, ie the wrong ones. This month the poetry journal PN Review published a takedown of Hollie McNish ...

Poetry is a great format to explore human rights and bring important issues to light. Through live performance, you can bring these ideas to a wider audience and also raise vital funds for Amnesty ...

Editor’s note: Not long after Amanda Gorman recited one of her poems at the inauguration of President Joe Biden on Jan. 20, three of her forthcoming books skyrocketed to three of the top four spots on ...