If you ever want to move your child out from the digital world and give them at least a part of your own personal childhood experience, check our list for 9 classic poems for children to memorize. The ...

Caroline Kennedy's other works include of A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children and A Patriot's Handbook. Caroline Kennedy's latest book comes with an agenda: to encourage a return to ...

A month before COVID struck, I took a course in writing poetry. I chose poetry for the same reason I might have chosen opera ...

A brisk little essay by Jim Holt in the New York TImes tells of the ease with which verse can be burned into one’s cortex: [T]he key to memorizing a poem painlessly is to do it incrementally, in tiny ...

Decades ago, my friend Caetlin received a peculiar assignment from the poet Robert L. Hass, who was then her undergraduate literature professor. He instructed each student to memorize three poems of ...

I heard a piece on NPR yesterday about high school level poetry recitation. Kids had to memorize and recite three poems, from different periods and in different styles. There are regional competitions ...

This is a fun repetition song, next in line on our list of classic poems for children to memorize, which can be used as a language exercise. Simple and easy to remember words makes it much easier and ...

Caroline Kennedy isn't just an advocate for reading poetry. In her latest book, Poems to Learn by Heart, Kennedy stresses the importance of... 'Poems To Learn By Heart': The Merits Of Memorizing Verse ...

One tribute to the late John Lewis began by noting his love of W. E. Henley’s “Invictus”; it seems to have been Nelson Mandela’s favorite too, as affirmed in Morgan Freeman’s reading of the poem.