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Day 2: How rhythm and rhyme make a poem memorable.
Today, we help you pay attention to the sound and feel of this week’s poem. Play our game to see how much you’ve already ...
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RFK Jr. said many autistic people will never write a poem − even though there’s a rich history of neurodivergent poets and writers
More recent readers have agreed. 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 ...
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'Writing the Ding Dang Poem': Tom Angleberger on Getting Kids Excited About Poetry
Tom Angleberger is the author of the popular Origami Yoda series and the Flytrap Files series, as well as several other books ...
Exhibition looks at how Shakespeare began to write
Curators are putting together an exhibition that aims to show people how William Shakespeare came to write his plays. The ...
Day 4: This poem is about staying up all night. Use it to greet the day.
Betraying Millennial Women: In “Girl on Girl,” Sophie Gilbert makes a searing case that trends from the 1990s and 2000s, ...
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Therapy and poetry have more in common than you think
Confounded by a confusing expression or dream from a patient, I might seemingly shift gears and ask myself, 'What if this ...
In Cameroon's civil war, spoken-word poets speak the unspeakable
Spoken-word poets in Cameroon are using their art form to help communities cope with traumas left by the ongoing civil war.