April is National Poetry Month, and there is cause for celebration. Not just of poetry itself but also of the fact that, as parents, teachers, publishers and kids know, the pleasure of poetry is a ...

To be or not to be? Young poets might know the question from William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” from movies or television, but not from reading the Bard himself. And it might not matter. Kids are creating ...

Poetry Month is often the time we remember to teach and read poems with kids and help our children write poetry. But you can read and write poetry with kids all year long–not just during Poetry Month!

There's no such thing as being too young to appreciate poetry! In fact, you'd be surprised by how much kids can get on board with the rhyming and humor in easy, fun children's poems. They're short, ...

Last night throughout the entire English-speaking world millions and millions of parents, grandparents, elder siblings, aunts and uncles, and family friends read one and the same poem to the little ...

There are many reasons why poems serve as good reading material for children, which is why we created a list of funny poems for children. Those reasons include the fact that poetry helps develop a ...

Forget reggaeton or rap: for children in rural Cuba the ­epitome of cool is writing and singing a ten-line poem – an art form honed by farmers and ­preserved over generations. Improvised oral poetry, ...

Who says poetry has to rhyme? Chris Harris — a writer and executive producer for How I Met Your Mother — had never written a poetry book or a children's book before, but he wanted to write something ...

ON a recent Sunday, six pupils from Fondren and Welch middle schools demonstrated through poetry, rap and spoken word what they had learned through "Turn Hate into Hope," a four-week program hosted by ...