When children write poetry, they often jump in with only a vague idea then follow where it leads — adults can do that, too, ...

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 ...

Shel Silverstein was a master of linguistic mischief, using repetition and creative wordplay to amuse and prepare kids for ...

Titled Good Morning, Mornings, the book is a collection of 30 poems written in Vietnamese and English narrating stories of ordinary life and family love as well as containing moral lessons for ...

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

Your favourite 'morning poems' On Monday's programme, we heard how Dame Judi Dench's father used to wake her up in the mornings with a poem during her childhood. So we asked for suggestions of the ...

New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander joins NPR's Rachel Martin to share a holiday poem collectively written by Morning Edition listeners.

Today’s Poem of the Day, “Music on Christmas Morning,” appeared originally in 1846, in a volume of poetry by three authors, purportedly brothers: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. The book was a stunning ...