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I do bring my teaching together with my writing. I make students write in class, and do the same prompts I give them. I'm…

— Allison Joseph

Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.

— Joan Larkin

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and…

— Sarah Kay

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new…

— Carol Ann Duffy

I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the time we…

— Arnold Adoff

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the…

— Helen Dunmore

I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

— Natasha Trethewey

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

— Aristophanes

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

— Walter Scott

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other…

— Phil Lesh

Teaching poetry, teaching as such, is worthy - if back breaking.

— Gerald Stern

I love teaching poetry writing. Students come into the class thinking poetry has to be one way, then leave having created pieces that are…

— Cate Marvin