A brisk little essay by Jim Holt in the New York TImes tells of the ease with which verse can be burned into one’s cortex: [T]he key to memorizing a poem painlessly is to do it incrementally, in tiny ...
What do you remember? Which words float to the front of your mind in moments of stillness? Consider the following lines, the beginning of “Ode to Buttoning and Unbuttoning My Shirt,” a poem by Ross ...
Greenwich resident, book author and former Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman recently published her 46th book, "Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart," an anthology of poems designed to be ...