When teaching children to read, it’s good to find ways to make reading as enjoyable as possible, that’s why we created a list of 10 short inspirational poems for children. Just like every painting in ...

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 ...

The contemporary dawning of Hebrew song can be traced to the last decades of the nineteenth century, when Jewish poets in Europe began to write Hebrew poetry. However, with new Hebrew educational ...

A new bilingual edition of Kadya Molodowsky’s enchanting Yiddish children’s poetry was recently published in Sweden. Edited and masterfully translated into English by Yaira Singer, “Through an Endless ...

NEW YORK — Nick Cannon has been keeping a notebook for much of his life, and next year we'll get to see some of the entries. The entertainer and record producer is working on a book of poems for ...

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) - The audience for 91-year-old Agnes Andreasen’s poetry just keeps growing. At first, her audience was limited to family members, starting with siblings and then growing to ...

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse. By Elisa Gabbert I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me” (“you fit ...

A glance at the May/June issue of The Horn Book Magazine: The beloved children’s poet whom scholars hate Shel Silverstein, who wrote books and poems for children -- as well as bawdy songs, poems, and ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.