Indiana University East professors Brian Brodeur (creative writing) and Nathan Froebe (music) set a poem to music and consider the results. Brodeur, an associate professor of English and creative ...

Oh, I love this story from across the pond: The British government is encouraging young people to learn poetry by heart, and a website has been set up with more than 100 suggestions. Just out of ...

The plight of Pierre, &c. Up north and down here, &c. 9/11 as ‘inside job,’ &c. Audio By Carbonatix Memorized any poems lately? It’s a worthy exercise, often a pleasure. I have never been much of a ...

Poetry can be intimidating. As students, many of us were taught that the goal of reading a poem was to “understand” exactly what the poet was trying to say. No small charge. The Common Core State ...

I BEGAN writing poetry because one Sunday afternoon in March 1922, a friend suggested that I should: the thought had never occurred to me. I scarcely knew any poems — The English Hymnal, the Psalms, ...