You might have memorised and performed a poem in class before. This is called learning a poem ‘off by heart’. It’s a great way to really show you understand the poem and have some fun ...

All children were expected to learn many things by rote, including poetry. The Ancient Greeks felt that learning poetry improved the mind, and Athenian schoolboys learned Homer. By the 1940s ...

Founded in 1997, The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College has a core mission to bring poets of national ... Smith students are intimately involved in every part of the press, learning about all ...

Sicily, Storyland A royal touch, &c. Life of a Reaganaut, &c. Memorized any poems lately? It’s a worthy exercise, often a pleasure. I have never been much of a poem-memorizer. You? But I have ...