From Henry Purcell to George Benjamin, a set of ten operas to demonstrate that English is not just a language for prose and ...

I like to play with other people’s words. Most of those words are now in the public domain, so everybody else’s words are also yours and mine. And R.W. Emerson lectures us that every word was once ...

The third annual National Baseball Poetry Festival will take place May 2-4, and will feature events at venues including Polar ...

For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent ... students in English seminars in the 1950s were going to be analyzing the prosody. They were writing naughty poems about ...

Of course, there are countless autistic people who write poetry who aren’t famous and haven’t published books. Neurodivergent poet and educator Chris Martin, who works with autistic people around the ...

Alongside noted poets including Kwame Alexander and Hanif Abdurraqib, 16 spoken-word students will read their works at the ...

I think of using rhythm and rhyme to express what’s often left unspoken - even if I’ve never quite mastered the knack for it ...

English Day Speech 2025: English Language Day is celebrated every year on April 23 to honour the English language and mark the birth anniversary of William Shakespeare, one of the most famous ...

From ancient epics to modern masterpieces, poetry has shaped our understanding of humanity. Join us as we celebrate the ...

The event, “Schooled on Poetry ... popular novel-in-verse, “The Crossover,” which was adapted into a show on Disney+. “I saw him talk at the National Council of Teachers of English ...

The expression comes from the famous scene in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” in which the eponymous seafarer shoots and kills an albatross—a sign of good luck or providence ...