Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in 1892.

Born in Rockland, Maine on this day in 1892, Edna St. Vincent Millay became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems. She was also known for the bohemian lifestyle she led in Greenwich Village in the mid-1900s. Her poetry, often in the form of a sonnet or ballad, was more conventional than her lifestyle. 

EDSITEment 
Students perform sound experiments with sonnets in the EDSITEment lesson Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet (9-12). 

ReadWriteThink 
Students analyze a variety of poems by several poets, and then choose one to perform in the ReadWriteThink lesson In the Poet's Shoes: Performing Poetry and Building Meaning (6-8).

Poetry: Sound and Sense (9-12) introduces nonthreatening ways to teach poetry in the high school classroom. Students read Spring and God's World by Edna St. Vincent Millay, among other poems, as they discuss the author's language choices and examine the sounds and sense of language in a variety of poems.

In Color Poems—Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting (3-5), students think about colors, while imagining what they taste, feel, smell, sound and look like. The students then use their five senses as a prewriting tool to guide their poetry writing.