This National Poetry Day Live Lesson for KS2/2nd Level pupils explores the theme of 'change' and includes reading, performance and critical analysis of similes and metaphors. The programme, presented ...

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 ...

Hope at Hand provides therapeutic poetry lessons for at-risk youth populations in North Florida. Founded by veteran educator Steffani Hendricks Fletcher in 2009, Hope at Hand combines poetry and art ...

For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ ...

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.

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 ...

Come with us on a Live Lessons virtual school trip to Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire for National Poetry Day 2022! We explore the stunning former home of poet Lord Byron as we come up with poetry ...