Shel Silverstein was a master of linguistic mischief, using repetition and creative wordplay to amuse and prepare kids for ...

Writer Alan Katz didn't think poetry was for him. Then he wrote a book or two and learned that poetry is for everyone.

Explore the 20th Annual Dodge Poetry Festival's Free Family Day on October 19th in Newark, featuring interactive poetry ...

The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents the 20th Annual Dodge Poetry ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse ... more depict the poetry, wonder and droll humor inspired by the great beyond. By Bruce Handy As spooky season approaches, the master of children’s horror ...

"I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies" by June Jordan JOSÉ OLIVAREZ: I’m attracted to the way the poem’s rage is grounded in ...

A shapeshifting medium, it doesn’t always look the same. Robert Frost’s short yet prolific “The Road Not Taken” is poetry ...

Victoria Monét hopes her new lyrical children’s book helps heal separation anxiety, “mom guilt,” and more. Singer and ...

Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Victoria Monét is set to make the leap into children's literature with her book, ...

NPR's Scott Simon asks Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha about his new collection, "Forest of Noise," and about the conflict in Gaza.

New opera from the acclaimed Peabody composer, 'and we, each,' draws from the verse of poet Shane McCrae and his haunting ...

A new poem by Margaret Atwood. By Margaret Atwood I love you now, right now inside this one word now, the one you’re reading now. And then of course this means I love you now forever, just as long as ...