If you have been keeping your eyes peeled and your ears open recently you may have heard that the government is launching a new campaign to get kids to learn poems by heart. Yes, you heard me. When ...

SINGAPORE: Have you spotted poetry splashed across the train during your morning commute? More than a hundred poems by Singapore writers are now featured on some SMRT trains and stations on the Circle ...

Caroline Kennedy's latest book comes with an agenda: to encourage a return to poetic memorization and recitation that both families and schools once considered routine. In Poems to Learn by Heart, ...

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.

Personality development is not a new concept. It has been in existence for 400 years — not merely in the form of books and texts, but delivered through poems. To promote the significance of poems and ...

Wayne Lin feels most alive when writing poetry. Originally from Taiwan, Lin came to the United States in 1970 as a graduate student. Decades later, after raising three children, welcoming eight ...

What can you recite by heart? Your times tables? German verb formations? The Lord’s Prayer? Salman Rushdie thinks it should be poetry. Speaking at the Hay Festival, the novelist described memorising ...