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 ...

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 ...

Grace Nichols is among the fine West Indian poets. She is Guyanese, a prize-winning writer with published collections of poetry, one novel for adult audiences and several children’s books. She has ...

In the scores of anthologies he compiled and in his own writing, he sought to teach and expand young imaginations through verse. By Neil Genzlinger Lee Bennett Hopkins, who in scores of anthologies he ...

Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Many parents read to their young children at bedtime – but it tends to be a story they share with them, rather than ...