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 ...

Here, BBC reporter Maria recites her open mic poem about a friend who suffered a stroke, for BBC World Service programme ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What lines of poetry are wandering through your memory? freefotouk, CC BY-NC Since the launch, the online survey has already attracted more than 300 responses from people of all ages from across the ...

Too often, students receive the message in their English classes that poetry exists to be analyzed. They learn terms, strategies and complicated acronyms to remember them—all in the service of solving ...