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.

In honor of National Poetry Month, kids in grades 5-12 are invited to watch videos on poets.org.

These lovely short poems for kids will get the little ones excited to read stanza after stanza Short poems for kids that delight and enrich While poetry might seem like the realm of intellectuals ...

Poet Ellen Hopkins, who lives in Cape Girardeau, shares some advice — and several poems as examples — of how to incorporate ...

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 ...

April is National Poetry Month, and that gives us a chance to celebrate creative words and ideas. For kids, there is poem style for every personality. These new books include poetry collections ...

This National Poetry Month, read how the poet Maggie Smith teaches her own children the craft.

There are many reasons why poems serve as good reading material for children, which is why we created a list of funny poems for children. Those reasons include the fact that poetry helps develop a ...

For children, exploring the world, it really has an immediacy as well as sounds, rhythm and rhyme. Wallace Stevens said that poetry is intended to help us live our lives.

Why do children and teens like writing poetry? It's an excellent and necessary means of self-expression. Poetry necessitates scratching below the surface, plumbing emotions students are often ...

Nearly 600 kids entered the 2021 KidsPost Poetry Contest. Their words reflect sadness, frustration, hope and gratitude.