In 2005, the National Endowment for the Arts, together with the Poetry Foundation, established Poetry Out Loud, a program intended to encourage “the nation’s youth to learn about great poetry through ...

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza ...

POET Sally Lawson, pictured, is stitching together a lyrical business capturing personal sentiments for all occasions. The 55-year-old, from Sunderland, has worked as a seamstress for the same company ...

Perth, Australia singer-songwriter Rachel Dillon. Photo via Facebook page Rachel Dillon Music. I did a master class in Perth, Australia and worked on a song with Rachel Dillon. Here are the first two ...

For your language-nerd approval, McSweeney's list of "Sexting Ice Breakers for English Grad Students." For example: “I’ve been examining your assonance all day.” “Your analysis of Moby-Dick is so long ...

Welcome to Part Two of our exploration and celebration of the use of rhyme in songs. The issue raised in Part One, whether songs require rhyme, and, if so, if they need to be perfect rhymes or not, is ...

You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the words that rhyme with each other. It will help you see the pattern of the poem. For example, if a poem's first and third lines rhyme you ...

You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the words that rhyme with each other. It will help you see the pattern of the poem. For example, if a poem's first and third lines rhyme you ...

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Bill Moyers is at it again. Few critics thought anyone in America would sit still for a talking-head TV series on myths. Moyers knew better; his ”Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth” became one of ...