Jean Prokott—a decade-long Century High School English teacher, the city’s third Poet Laureate, a recent recipient of a $50K poetry grant—just wants to bring us together.

The night’s roster included the writer Gideon Jacobs, the poet Jordan Franklin and the digital artist Molly Soda, among ...

Sun is laughing In this poem Grace Nichols imagines the sun as a moody, teenage girl. For forest Uses personification to explore powerful feelings about the forest. Cosmic disco A poem inspired by ...

Display the different interpretations around a copy of the poem. This short film will be relevant for teaching English at primary school.