April is National Poetry Month, and the perfect time to look at some wonderful new poetry books for kids: — Just the title of his new book is enough to tell you that poet-artist Douglas Florian loves ...

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!

Poet Curt Curtin was well known in Worcester's poetry circles. His wife and collaborator, Dee O'Connor, talks about two ...

What’s the right subject for a poetry collection? Celestial bodies, or bodies in motion on a basketball court? The slowly-then-all-at-once growth of a class garden, or the gradual-then-sudden path of ...

Whether riffing on homework, dragons, pizza or dot-gobbling Flotz, Seattle's Jack Prelutsky is arguably the nation's most popular children's poet. His works, which span nearly 40 years and 35 volumes, ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you ...