As a longtime poetry reader and poet myself, ... Canadian poet Virna Sheard delivers with the 1913 poem “Christmas,” which encourages adults to “be children also for to-day.” The poem ...

For the poems are told through the eyes of Rosen as a child, a perspective which, aged 78, he brilliantly recaptures. The first begins: “I can dream myself / back and back and back / as far back ...

Take a perennial favorite, Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends.Because poetry lends itself to being read aloud, most teachers of young children (myself included) keep a copy of this ...

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 ...