This summer, encourage your students to stay engaged with and excited about poetry through this list of summer reading activities.

Read this collection of poems about social justice and this collection of poems about identity, then learn how to create your own online anthology of poems to share with your students.

Find poems about travel and poems about summer.

Discover strategies and ideas for bringing literary publishing into a high school setting—including interviews and interactions with contemporary poets—in this essay by Dylan Emerick-Brown, the creator and faculty adviser for Deltona High School’s acclaimed, student-run literary magazine, Howl.

Read a new selection of students’ letters from this year's Dear Poet project.

Finally, we’re pleased to announce that the American Association of School Librarians has named Poets.org a 2017 Best Website for Teaching & Learning. This recognition honors websites that foster “innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration.”