The Academy of American Poets hopes to give teachers in all content areas multiple opportunities to integrate poetry into their instruction with Teach this Poem, a new, free weekly email that features a poem along with instructional resources and ideas for activities related to the selection. Teachers can sign up now to begin receiving the emails. The new initiative, which begins September 2, expands on the Academy’s existing series Poem-a-Day, an online syndicated series featuring previously unpublished poems that has been running since 2006. The Academy created the new resource to build upon the lesson plans already available on its website and to give teachers a version of Poem-a-Day for students. The new poetry series, best suited for students in fourth through 12th grade, is curated by Madeleine Fuchs Holzer, the Academy’s educator in residence and a visiting scholar at the Creativity Commons at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Previously, she was the educational development director and the program development director at the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education. She also served as the director of Arts in Education at the New York State Council on the Arts. “Teachers can use Teach This Poem as a quick entry into the study of poetry,” Holzer says. “Students can study the poem in isolation or as a connection to a larger unit of study across disciplines.” The activities that accompany the poems provide “multiple entry points” for doing close readings on poems with students, she adds.  In addition to sending the weekly emails, the Academy will also post and archive the poems and activities on its website.