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 ...

Poet and educator Kwame Alexander stops by to chat about poetry with NPR's Rachel Martin. He shares some ideas for poems to read with kids and tips for getting kids to write some of their own. Oh, the ...

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 has mostly been a solitary experience, so it was a real treat for me to join in with the young children.

If you think poetry is a lofty art form accessible only to the intellectual elite, think again. The Poetry Center wants to get ’em while they’re young. Saturday morning was this semester’s final ...

Did you know%3F You are invited Saturday%2C April 11%2C to join Salem Public Library staff and special guests as we celebrate a renewed Children's Area and two amazing entries to the Children's space.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires ...

Darren Sardelli knows what response he’ll get before he even poses the question. “How many people don’t like poetry?” he asks the fifth- and sixth-graders at an assembly at the Rushmore Avenue School ...

Over a dozen wide-eyed children were gathered around Chuck Perkins as he recited his poetry during the Jazz at Congo Square: Kids' Poetry & Music Program on Monday (June 18) at the Cita Dennis Hubbell ...

April is National Poetry Month, and one author has come up with a way to make poetry fun for kids. Karen Jo Shapiro has taken the rhythms of famous poems and turned them into poetic parodies for ...

“No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.” When Robert Frost wrote these words in 1939, they were part of a sophisticated essay on “The Figure a Poem Makes,” and I’m guessing he hadn’t ...