The Internet has made the need to commit anything to memory almost non-existent. In one week, I resolve to learn T.S. Eliot's most famous poem ...

How to remember poetry When you remember a poem, you learn it so well that you can say it out loud perfectly. To help you remember a poem: think about the story the poem is telling focus on the ...

Each time you learn another set of lines, you retype the ones you already learned to put the whole lot of them together. By some weird hand-eye osmosis, this technique usually works, and once learned, ...

Decades ago, my friend Caetlin received a peculiar assignment from the poet Robert L. Hass, who was then her undergraduate literature professor. He instructed each student to memorize three poems ...

In times of crisis, learning and reciting poetry can act as a balm.

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza ...

When the words of another become your own, they gain a transcendental power.

Maybe you’ve already been to the library four times this summer. You’re still reading with your kid every night and they’re doing some independent rea ...

Memorizing a mysterious Wallace Stevens poem, Bender experienced much more than the pleasure of learning words by heart—the poem worked a real, physiological magic that surprises her to this day.

As poet Jean Sprackland told NPR's Scott Simon, a poem you learn by heart becomes a part of you. In that case, choosing what works to memorize is a big decision. We have 10 suggestions, based on ...