“Breathe in gently and deeply through your nose. Exhale slowly and fully through your mouth. Clear your mind and allow your breath to find its natural rhythm.” That’s the instruction for most ...

One tribute to the late John Lewis began by noting his love of W. E. Henley’s “Invictus”; it seems to have been Nelson Mandela’s favorite too, as affirmed in Morgan Freeman’s reading of the poem.

It used to be that stories weren’t written down, they were told and passed down orally. Thanks to the invention of written language and Gutenberg’s printing press, today’s stories and poems are mostly ...

If you ever want to move your child out from the digital world and give them at least a part of your own personal childhood experience, check our list for 9 classic poems for children to memorize. The ...

Greenwich resident, book author and former Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman recently published her 46th book, "Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart," an anthology of poems designed to be ...

The plight of Pierre, &c. Up north and down here, &c. 9/11 as ‘inside job,’ &c. Writers tell of poems they have memorized, would like to memorize, etc. A week ago, I had a column titled “Poems by ...

In a recent study by Cornell researchers, it has been revealed that ChatGPT is capable of memorizing poems, raising ethical concerns about privacy and data usage. The study suggests that the model and ...

In his head, Dan Knights is thinking "Russia overhears a Bostonian rebel marmoset rashly reply heavily." But he's saying: "468440901224953430146549585. " Knights, a University of Minnesota professor, ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Kate Coombs, who lives in Bountiful, Utah. Kate began writing when she was seven or eight years old and was first published in 2006. She confides that ...