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 ...

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!

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 ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. With Mother’s Day just behind us and Father’s Day on the horizon, it’s only fitting that this Sunday is National ...

Step into the world of a poet: Examine the world with magnifying-glass eyes and open your heart to the joys that sneak up on you, of swooping owls, and the smell of cookies, and the wispy clouds of a ...

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 ...

If you've found yourself reading the same picture book over and over (and over and over) to a small but determined audience we see you and salute you! Perhaps you'd like to add a few new titles to the ...

Looking for your next read? Check out the Canadian fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics and children's books to read in the ...

CORRECTION: The Poetry Power Workshop is April 29, from 10 a.m. to noon. An earlier version of this article had the wrong time. CEDAR RAPIDS — In celebration of April as National Poetry Month, the ...

Reading is about more than following a narrative or learning facts; it can also be a profound shared experience that culminates in a better understanding of ourselves and each other. In that spirit, ...

Dozens of Roosevelt Elementary School fourth graders’ hands shot high in the air Tuesday afternoon as Jon Olseth asked who would like to read a poem from Shel Silverstein’s “Where the Sidewalk Ends.” ...