We’ve lost sight of how important play is for learning. Play is learning, and with poetry you can teach so many things, and it’s painless.”” ...

Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs we all face ...

Chicago playwright Nick Patricca believes you can build a play out of poems-and he`s written one to prove it. Patricca (pictured here) calls ”The Idea of Chaos (Love, Sex, and Death) in Key West ...

NPR wants to read how sports has touched your life — in poetry form. Maybe a home run is like getting your dream job – or asking your sweetheart for a first date felt like a Hail Mary pass.

Krapf said he always pictured transforming the poems into a play. (He even mentioned it in the preface of his book.) Now, that dream is becoming a reality this weekend at IndyFringe. The play ...

Ethan Coen’s “A Play Is a Poem” is having its world premiere at Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum this month. The five one-acts that make up the work represent distinct genres and time periods ...

watching your kid play in a cemetery. The voice is casual (“When we’re low / we roll / to the corner, near-empties / in our hands”), although you’ll never doubt you’re reading poetry ...

In those schools, students will create their own spoken word poetry, some of which will be incorporated into the script during performances of the play at their schools. The cast of History ...

This poem, yes, it's not quite as fierce and as focused as "Dust Of Snow." But look, it's talking about winter as play and pain. It's talking about memory. It's got its own beautiful ruefulness ...