A famous writer and I agree on the worst part of sleep
Someone on Twitter sent me this poem: "Sleep. Those little slices of Death. How I loathe them." I read these three lines and thought, "Yes! I'm not alone! See? Someone…
Poetry memorization need not be boring or a waste of time. I have used it to make a woman swoon (possibly) and enact one of my greatest pranks of all time against a fellow teacher.
Mike Chasar of Poetry Magazine writes about the lost art of poetry memorization. While it’s true that the academic demand to memorize poetry has all but disappeared from the American…