What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis ... In 'Words with Wings and Magic Things,' poetry is beautifully illustrated — and ...

Smith uses her former teacher as an inspiration for her own writing as well as for the way she teaches beginning and advanced poetry at Princeton. Specifically, she says she seeks the "magic" that ...

So a lot of the images in the book are kind of smaller ... talking about their children's book of poetry, "Words With Wings And Magic Things." For more conversations like this one, visit npr.org ...