Christmas is such a special time of year filled with joy and goodwill. It's a time for Christmas pageants, singing carols, ...

The Appalachian Christmas carol “Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head” was collected from Hardin County in central Kentucky in the early 20th century but, as with so many other folk carols and hymns ...

It might not have seemed like it at the time, but all those schoolyard rhymes you memorized as a kid were poems in disguise.

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American ... [+] history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without ...

By Daisy Fried Daisy Fried is the author of four volumes of poetry, most recently a book ... in a sonnet that’s Shakespearean in structure if not in rhyme or prosodic scheme, arrives in this ...

An indispensable part of the ceremony, of course, was the Civil War veteran, and at the time I’m telling about we still had one—a Confederate, naturally. He may have been patiently waiting ...

A celebration of 90s Hip Hop feat. the music of A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, The Pharcyde, Wu Tang Clan, Fugees, J Dilla, Questlove, Mos Def, Salt N Pepa, MF DOOM, Aesop Rock, Beastie Boys ...

Nathan, an 11-year-old boy, tells us about the tradition of Christmas and all the things he does at this time of year. We hear about the symbolism of the advent wreath, which represents Jesus as ...

At 88 words, Rudolph is shorter than the Jesus parables and ... reindeer made famous in the poem by Clement Moore, the work now known as “The Night Before Christmas.” There was Dasher, Dancer ...

You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the words that rhyme with each other. It will help you see the pattern of the poem. For example, if a poem's first and third lines rhyme ...