The rise in the popularity of Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first National Youth Poet Laureate, represents a prime opportunity for educators to use spoken word poetry in the classroom.
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Rebecca Watts, Rupi Kaur, Kate Tempest – the world of poetry is up in arms again. Here’s why.
There’s a fine tradition of Australian poetry harnessing the corrective power of insult. In doing so, it prompts us to face hard questions about our history and identity.
Poetry has been a part of teaching and learning for hundreds of years. But how has poetry education changed? And how are young voices using poetry to express themselves today?
During Shakespeare’s time the art of poetry was in the performance. Not so different from modern-day slam poetry.
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