In this week of the Presidential Inauguration, it must be said that poetry serves another function when deployed in public: it is classy, it adds tone and the aura of high-minded literary prestige.

Join us at 11:00 for a National Poetry Day 2022 Live Lesson! We want to hear how your pupils use their senses to describe their environment. Send ideas from your 7-11 year-olds to ...

On January 17, 2019 the world lost Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and national luminary, Mary Oliver. Oliver's brilliant prose is direct and inspired, linking together the human and natural world. Her ...

This set of shorter video clips is taken from the Live Lesson programme and can be used to teach individual topics. If you enjoyed these clips, why not catch up with this Live Lesson and learn more ...

Poetry can be a form of self-care. Poets such as Fariha Róisín, Yrsa Daley-Ward, and even Lana Del Rey have all touched on the healing power of the art form. Over the course of the pandemic, actress ...

Fourth-grader Cade Maxwell stood confidently before a room filled with his peers from First Odessa Christian Academy and their parents and began to read a poem from his self-authored book, “The Buddy ...

In his 1974 anthology Revolution of the World: A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry 1914–1945, Jerome Rothenberg introduced American poet Bob Brown to those of us of a certain generation, ...

While writing a letter to a friend from college, the late David Foster Wallace came up with the line “Every love story is a ghost story", which later became the name of DT Max’s biography of Wallace.