For “The Favorite Poem Project,” I chose a well-known sonnet of Shakespeare’s because I love how it speaks to readers today.

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*Originally published on March 15, 2021. It was cold. It was freezing. The old man was — probably — sneezing. But we don't know about the final detail. Sneezes are not specified. Or about the old man ...

An archive has revealed a handwritten copy of a 200-year-old poem originally written to prove rhyming is easy after an argument at a breakfast table. Marking World Poetry Day, Longleat in Wiltshire ...

English is a tricky language to learn. Native speakers may take this for granted, failing to realize how intricate—and inconsistent—many of its pronunciation rules are. For instance, why do heart, ...

Nearly a hundred years have passed since E.V. Rieu’s India in Song: Eastern Themes in English Verse by British and Indian Poets (Oxford University Press, 1920), one of the earliest known attempts to ...

For 21-year-old slam poet Diksha Bijlani, English is a language she has no choice but to use. She cannot write poetry in any other tongue. But, just like the Hindi versions of the Disney movies she ...

My reaction to the president's chewing his gum in public, especially with foreign dignitaries in China, is to reflect on poetry often recited by my English teacher, Beulah Bratton, of Fort Worth.

A poem with no words, and only punctuation, left Cambridge English university students baffled. Cambridge University English Literature students were left shocked and baffled after opening their ...

English is a tricky language to learn. Native speakers may take this for granted, failing to realize how intricate-and inconsistent-many of its pronunciation rules are. For instance, why do heart, ...