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 ...

A famous poet once wrote "April is the cruelest month." Perhaps T.S. Eliot would change his tune today, especially if he knew that since 1996 April has been designated National Poetry Month. The late ...

Poetry is everywhere, says Stefania Gomez, the Education and Youth Services Assistant at Chicago’s Poetry Foundation Library — and she’s on a mission to share that message with young people. “There is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Children’s verse is no minor subject to Chicago’s Poetry Foundation, which is creating a $25,000 prize and laureateship in the field. The foundation said it plans to announce the winner Sept. 27, when ...

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 ...

April 12, 2006— -- Poetry was an integral part of the culture of the Kennedy family. Caroline Kennedy remembers that she and her brother John F. Kennedy Jr. would copy classic poems for gifts for ...

That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. A springtime walk more ...