Arts‐based responses to teaching poetry: a literature review of dance and visual arts in poetry education

Review Essay Poetry In Motion : Studies of Tongan Dance

Responding to Ebola through Visual Poetry.

Leanne Boschman moved to Liberia to work as teachers, they initially lived in an apartment on Randal Street in downtown Monrovia. From there, Epp noted, “the sights and sounds from the community were unlike anything that I had experienced before in North American or European cities: the architecture, the flora, the street noises and outdoor activities, such as football games in a field visible ...

A New Approach to Teaching English Poetry to EFL Students

Poetry like other literary genres exists to be enjoyed and appreciated. The difficult task facing any instructor is to develop this sense of appreciation and enjoyment in students who are not interested in poetry. For a long time, literature in general and poetry in particular, was purged from the teaching programmes on the ground that it made no contribution to learning a foreign language for ...

Poetry for pleasure: promoting poetry to children in public libraries

This article reports an investigation of the attitudes and opinions of children’s librarians towards poetry, and towards its promotion in the public library. It also reports some attitudes towards literature promotion to young people in general. A series of structured interviews with library professionals currently working in the public sector strongly indicate that children’s librarians are th...

Emily: A Tool for Visual Poetry Analysis

Information visualization has not been very successful in pervading areas of literary and scholarly enquiry, such as the analysis of relatively unstructured human-generated text like poetry. The work presented here proposes the use of visualization tools for such scholarly analysis and details the operation of a tool developed for this purpose.