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Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...
I memorized the poem in the second grade. When I was little, it was difficult to read it and I did not understand the meaning, but now I feel it more deeply and the whole 19 stanzas have become easy ...
For National Poetry Month, city of Charleston poet laureate AsiahMae is reading a poem every day via a video on Instagram.
Haiku can serve as a catalyst for discussion and creativity as students work together to create their own poems.
He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...
Maya Angelou is the second poet in history to read a poem during a presidential inauguration; Robert Frost was the first ...
In a blurry photo from my first trip to Poland at 19, me and my godmother, one of my mother’s ten siblings, are laughing together, a thousand feet into the earth, in a 13th century chapel made ...
The author and poet Michael Rosen introduces and reads some of his best-known poems for children: The space on the page The 'space' is a ‘friend’ to whom Michael Rosen can tell anything.
Faranak Amidi presents The Fifth Floor, a weekly programme that revels in the variety and range of stories produced by the BBC World Service's language sections. Faranak joined the BBC Persian ...
April is National Poetry Month. Celebrated across the U.S. and Canada, the observance spreads appreciation and awareness for ...
Atlanta is home to some of the most accomplished and celebrated poets in the country. In the past few years, local poets have ...