Few people read it for ___. In Western high schools, poetry is hardly taught ___ it is considered to be out of date and have little to do with the life of today’s students.In China, however, poetry is still an important part of the course. Recently, the Ministry of Education...
Many bars, cafés and schools still host poetry readings where experienced or novice poets can share their work with others. One great way to hear modern poets today is to attend a poetry slam, which is a competition where poets battle against one another and are judged on their poem ...
My poetry memory is of my 85 year old grandmother sitting in her bed, in her nightgown, with her eyes closed, listening intently as I read to her from my first book The Art of Excavation. Having lost her sight to glaucoma a few years prior, my beautiful nana loved hearing about the s...
Frankenstein is still a required read for many middle schools and high schools, which is definitely necessary as it can teach important life lessons to people of all ages. The ideas within Frankenstein such as the danger in pursuing advancements in technology are extremely applicable to today with...
delivering bilingual educational workshops in schools and other communities. They commissioned singer Owen Shiers to sing the poem ‘Y Border Bach’ by William Williams (Crwys) and I had previously translated the same poem which Ennyn tracked down to my website:another-crwys-poem-translated. In ...
She is also a youth advocate, serving on Selwyn Youth Council and in other roles. Her poetry has appeared in notable publications such asStarlingand the NZPS anthology. She has been recognised as a finalist in the National Schools Poetry Award 2022 and has twice secured second place in her ...
Of course I want to thank The League of Canadian Poets and Poetry In Voice for their support! #Teachers #schools #poetryinschool #poetinclass Poet in School at one of Mississauga’s schools Anna’s Tanka in the book Anna’s <取舍之间的释然> Anna’s Poem/translation at one of Regi...
wished for no fence to part the waves of the Pacific, she wished to plant a circle of trees rooted in both nations. So we are here to remind you, you’ve been directed to listen to community, when you listen to us, we are community. You are also listening to a president’s wife....
While the poetic world altered around them, while two generations of poets made new schools of poetry, they remained, for the most part, unaffected by these schools. There is nothing of Arnold and Clough, of Swinburne, Rossetti or Morris, or of any of the others, in Browning or Tennyson....
Freelance poets find themselves increasingly involved 'off-the-page': in teaching and academic environments; in schools and school assemblies; in institutions and voluntary agencies; in collaboration with musicians and the visual/ plastic arts; as cultural 'caption- makers' for public monuments and ...