Searching for some truly unique wedding readings for your big day ... The internet has more love poems that you could shake a diamante-clad veil at, but choosing something that speaks to you ...
Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...
What is a nonsense poem? Nonsense poems don't always make sense, they often use made up words, mixed up with real words. What are free verse poems? Free verse poems don't follow the rules.
Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...
Reading Time tells the story of the long poem in the long eighteenth-century as it navigated between narrative and description, progress and digression, and time and space. The long poem emerged, ...
In an acrostic poem, the first letter of each line spells a word. The word is the subject of the poem. She really really likes stars. But this is no ordinary poem. This is an acrostic. So there is ...
This is a poetic film about The Penis becoming a diary with a unique story to tell. Penis Poetry is made in collaboration with Andre Medeiros Martins who wrote on his lovers' penises his personal ...
The elementary Poetry Lesson Plan can also be used for older students, as it is largely a close-text reading of a few of the poems. A list of additional classroom resources have also been posted here.
Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...