Decades ago, my friend Caetlin received a peculiar assignment from the poet Robert L. Hass, who was then her undergraduate literature professor. He instructed each student to memorize three poems of ...

Caroline Kennedy's other works include of A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children and A Patriot's Handbook. Caroline Kennedy's latest book comes with an agenda: to encourage a return to ...

What do you remember? Which words float to the front of your mind in moments of stillness? Consider the following lines, the beginning of “Ode to Buttoning and Unbuttoning My Shirt,” a poem by Ross ...

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 ...

Writers tell of poems they have memorized, would like to memorize, etc. A week ago, I had a column titled “Poems by Heart.” The column drew responses from many readers, which I will publish in due ...

“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 ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

A brisk little essay by Jim Holt in the New York TImes tells of the ease with which verse can be burned into one’s cortex: [T]he key to memorizing a poem painlessly is to do it incrementally, in tiny ...