April 12, 2006— -- Poetry was an integral part of the culture of the Kennedy family. Caroline Kennedy remembers that she and her brother John F. Kennedy Jr. would copy classic poems for gifts ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

April is National Poetry Month, and one author has come up with a way to make poetry fun for kids. Karen Jo Shapiro has taken the rhythms of famous poems and turned them into poetic parodies for ...

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