“Once, I forgot to finish my homework, and my mum was so angry that she tore my paper into pieces,” the 18-year-old Hongkonger recalled. His mother, Pat Cheung-fung, did eventually stick his ...
In his justly famous and prophetic poem “The Second Coming,” William Butler Yeats wrote the lines “The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.” ...
While we're likely all familiar with quite possibly the most famous Halloween poem for kids — yes, I'm talking about the "trick or treat, smell my feet..." one — there are actually quite a few ...
Amanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for "unity and togetherness" in her self-penned poem. The 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill ...
Poetry is, quite simply, the activity for which Queen’s University is best known around the world. Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney was both a student and lecturer here at Queen’s, and other famous ...
“It can help you with homework, but can it help you on tests?” Zhang was quoted as saying. Requiring children to copy text – such as vocabulary, textbook passages or poems – hundreds of ...