Poetry as Breath: Teaching Student Teachers to Breathe-Out Poetry

Soffio (Breath). Interactive Poetry and Words Installation

Soffio (Breath) is an interactive installation of words. It is composed of four mouths carved in scented soap hanging from the wall. It is an intimate installation in which the breath of the passer-by gives life to a tale which is played only just for him and it is implicitly required an exchange of emotional closeness between the poetical text and the person who creates the work through his ow...

Lyric Poetry as Society

Psychoanalysis as poetry.

Like psychoanalysis, poetry is possible because of the nature of verbal language, particularly its potentials to evoke the sensations of lived experience. These potentials are vestiges of the personal relational context in which language is learned, without which there would be no poetry and no psychoanalysis. Such a view of language infuses psychoanalytic writings on poetry, yet has not been f...

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...