Community Quote by Renee Watson

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

— May Sarton

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

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

Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

— Sarah Kay

Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

“When teachers participate in a literary experience with a professionally presented children's play, they are offering their students a text quite different from anything…

— James Hugh Comey

These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students I know…

— Renee Watson

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

— Julie Taymor

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they…

— Rita Dove

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison

It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.

— A. R. Ammons

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip…

— Terry Eagleton