Poetry
Poetry
idea
A conversation with my spider Maman and Louise Bourgeois
by Pascale Petit
Poetry
idea
The long poem is just right for our confounding, fractured age
by Tess Somervell
Stories and literature
guide
How to gain more from your reading
There’s more to words than meets the eye. Deepen your appreciation of literature through the art of slow, attentive reading
by Robert DiYanni
Learning and education
film
A homework task prompts kids to reflect deeply on learning, and its limits
20 mins
Civic life
idea
The power of Langston Hughes’s ‘melancholy citizenship’
by Robert L Tsai
Poetry
idea
Emily Dickinson and the creative ‘solitude of space’
by Magdalena Ostas
Love
film
A poet struggles for the just-right words to memorialise a past romance
8 mins
Poetry
idea
How poetry casts a spell through the rhythmic magic of metre
by Annie Finch
Poetry
idea
Sufi love poetry is in vogue, but few grasp its radical meaning
by Matthew Thomas Miller
Poetry
film
An English teacher asks his class: ‘What’s the opposite of a gun?’
5 mins