Katie Budris

What makes my heart happy? When students say things like: "I don't enjoy writing poetry, and I certainly don't enjoy reading said poetry...

Today's post is a reblog from a former classmate of mine, Kristin, with whom I studied creative writing and literature at Roosevelt...

After a much needed 6-ish week break, I'm stepping back into the classroom tomorrow to meet a group of incoming freshman and to attempt...

Yes! I'm thrilled to see this article in The Atlantic about Why Teaching Poetry Is So Important. On a whim a few weeks ago, I threw some...

Best commercial ever? Definitely one of the best speeches ever. Thank you Dead Poets Society. "We don't read and write poetry because...

In honor of National Poetry month and what I have affectionately come to know as Poetry Blitz Day, a poem: This week the letter from my...

To wrap up the semester, I usually ask my students to write in response to a handful of self-reflective questions and then share aloud....

"Let us remember... that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the world in which...

"The reinvention, the making of a poetry for our time, is the only thing that makes poetry matter. And that means, literally, making...