The last time I did that, I was in standard eight and incensed by the poem My Name by Magoleng wa Selepe. So I committed it to memory and declaimed it on stage at a Christmas concert as if I was ...

Students memorize and perform poems in a variety of styles and time periods. We asked some of this year's 55 competitors how they're preparing. EMILY PORTER: My name is Emily Porter. I'm from ...

— Marilynn Anderson is the author of “100 LITTLE RHYMES for teaching your CHILD TO READ — KID-FRIENDLY KINDERGARTEN and GRADE ONE POEMS FOR CLASSROOM MEMORIZATION (Kiddy Poems…)” set in eBook format ...

American history records some notorious criminals and ne’er-do-wells, but my favorite, who I learned about when I moved out west as a kid, might be a stagecoach robber on the frontier who was known as ...

From the forests of Mollem to the waters of the Mhadei, artists, environmentalists, and local communities in Goa are using ...

I had planned to submit two poems about spring for my column this week, but spring left us far too early — I think my ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

Shaeleigh — gave me anxiety because I had to spell it out. A teacher taught me the importance of standing up for it.

Louise Machen, 44, from Middleton has been nominated for the Forward Prize which is the most prestigious award for poetry in ...

Eminem released "My Name Is" in 1999, using a sample from a song by Labi Siffre that he almost didn't get permission for.