Brilliant poetry collections for primary-school children, chosen by Michael Rosen, Carol Ann Duffy and other contemporary poets.
Hadas via email about poetry’s power to offer “the life raft of language by fusing the private and the universal. We also discussed imagination’s ability to press back against the pressure of reality and the gritty nature of the poetry that feels most alive — that these poems are “...
(#5) John Donne: "To His Mistress Going to Bed" and other poems (#4) Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman: The virginal but fecund parents of American poetry get "down and dirty" ... (#3) Sappho of Lesbos: "In Adoration" and other erotic poems and fragments (translated into English fro...
Give your advanced students a look at what a lecture might look like at Harvard University. Vendler’s 40-minute lesson on poetry is a dream for some but hard to swallow for others. Classroom-Friendly Poems from Button Poetry https://youtube.com/watch?v=v6KI6c_IfvHg Students adore Phil ...
The Best American Poetry|Comments (0) February 09, 2023 “Stiff” [by Barnyard Kipling] Stiff If you can keep revising when all around you are bringing polystyrene cups into those windowless rooms with the long tables; if you can keep on journaling while all ...
Lyric poems by famous poets and best lyric poems to feel good. Best lyric poems ever written. Read all poems about lyric from aroun the world.
Let these sister and brother poems be shared with your sibling. Brother and sister have always had a close bond. Their love is unconditional, and no matter how they argue in the morning, they would always care for one another at the end of the day. ...
Katharine Tynan was an Irish writer, known mainly for her novels and poetry. After her marriage in 1898 to the Trinity College scholar, writer and barrister Henry Albert Hinkson she usually wrote under the name Katharine Tynan Hinkson, or variations thereof. He was so foolish, the poor lad, ...
And while her quotes and one-liners were laugh-out-loud caustic keepers, this selection delves deeper into Parker’s literary repertoire, bringing together the best of her short fiction and poetry in a gorgeous new edition with a binding as dazzling, and illustrations as attention-grabbing, as...
They shared a love of poetry and often wrote poems for each other. They sold clothes and went hungry to slowly build up a big library, and they always spent their nights on literary drinking games such as this one: An event would be chosen from a pile of books, and the first person ...