Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day," celebrating the winter solstice, is also a children's book illustrated by Carson Ellis. They collaborated by mail.

Shel Silverstein was a master of linguistic mischief, using repetition and creative wordplay to amuse and prepare kids for ...

Looking for strange, alien and misunderstood things in the world around us can help find the wonder that inspires poetry, Georgia Heard writes.

I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind — And I see that my own hands can make The world that’s in my mind. Then let us ... Through his poetry, novels, plays, essays and children’s ...

Amanda Gorman made her voice heard in January 2021 while reading the poem for President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Four years later, she’s helping children find their voice with her new picture ...

World Environment Day Poems for kids - Find 5 to 10-line poems for kids suitable for their assignments, speech and homework. These poems are suitable for students from class 1 to 10.

Children from a Leicestershire secondary school joined 273,000 others worldwide for what they hope will be the world's biggest poetry class. Year seven at Roundhill Academy in Syston collaborated ...

It was more like my children kind of broke me open and all these poems started pouring out,” she said. “It was like mind, body, and spirit – broke.” Loryn Brantz and her kids, Ronen, 2 ...

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

‘Where Kids Should Play, But Addicts Stay’: A Jason Rantz poem about a Seattle park in disarray Aug 13, 2024, 5:55 PM Urban Triangle Park, a city park in Seattle.