If you have been keeping your eyes peeled and your ears open recently you may have heard that the government is launching a new campaign to get kids to learn poems by heart. Yes, you heard me. When ...

I suck at poetry. I’m just no good at appreciating it. And I’ve always felt that’s a shameful character defect, especially for a voracious reader such as myself. So I recently set out on a ...

SINGAPORE: Have you spotted poetry splashed across the train during your morning commute? More than a hundred poems by Singapore writers are now featured on some SMRT trains and stations on the Circle ...

Most Fridays, Mary Lee Hahn, a 5th grade English and language arts teacher at Wright Elementary School in Dublin, Ohio, has her students pick a poem and recite it to the class. She’s been doing this ...

A free Mesa Arts Center poetry program helps students cope with anxiety, grief and trauma through creative writing and ...

At a recent event at the South Bank, Kazuo Ishiguro confessed to a packed audience that he didn't really get poetry. I couldn't help but nod along with a vague sense of relief and sadness. Relief ...

Like most people born in the 1950s, my early school experience of learning poetry by heart was pretty grim. Occasionally the gloom was brightened by a teacher making it fun (in the way we were asked ...

In his blog, “The Power of Patterns in teaching,” published in The Robb Review, Oct. 4, 2022, Dr. Timothy Rasinski explains that English has many word-patterns that can be used to teach reading. In ...

From poetry classes to crochet groups, older adults are finding that learning new skills can support brain health, build ...

Do you like to read poetry? When was the last time you heard someone recite a poem? Some people may just think of poetry as something they studied at school, but for many people it has a powerful ...