National Poetry Month always means a shower of lyrical displays in schools, libraries, and bookstores, but some titles rise above the rest. Here’s a look at the season’s standout poetry books for ...

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!

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 ...

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 ...

Robert Frost once said, “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” So it’s no surprise that educators who want their students to think, feel, and express ...

April is Poetry Month, and there’s an abundance of new poetry books for children. Here’s a closer look: Since the post of Children’s Poet Laureate was created several years ago, three people have held ...

Who says poetry has to rhyme? Chris Harris — a writer and executive producer for How I Met Your Mother — had never written a poetry book or a children's book before, but he wanted to write something ...

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 ...

Recently I spent 10 weeks as a classroom teacher again, after a long hiatus. One night, I stayed late at school to prepare the shelves for our cross-genre reading unit. My six-year-olds were going to ...