Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

People who say they don’t need poetry, or don’t know poetry, or don’t like poetry, don’t realize that they probably can recite hundreds of poems verbatim — poems set to music by Bob ...

The U.K.’s Poetry by Heart program deals with changes in our poetic tradition by requiring contestants to recite one poem from before 1914, and one from after that date. That is a clever strategy.

Favorite poem to recite: America, I Sing You Back by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke "To be so honest, I was never the type of person who loved poetry or appreciated poetry to the fullest," said Moses.

A caveat: The 39 poems (she will make up a 40th on the spot to celebrate her 40th birthday) are Ivory’s own, even though she could recite Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise,” if you asked.

Bill Murray loves poetry. He loves poetry so much he trades comedic one-liners for lines of poetry at a yearly benefit for Poets House, a nonprofit library and cultural center in New York City.

Immigration, love, children and nostalgia were common themes in the pieces, written by students in the low-income Latino empowerment nonprofit's adult education course.

Skaneateles, NY - Children learn English by listening, Skaneateles third-grade teacher Janet Fagal said, so it’s only natural that they take a liking to poetry. “I think there’s a natural ...

Poetry in an unlikely place: In a grim urban shanty town in the middle of Sao Paulo, budding poets from the poorest sections of Brazilian society get together weekly to compose and recite poetry.