In June, I had the privilege of attending the 2025 CLiPPA Poetry Show at the National Theatre in London, run by the Centre of Literacy for Primary Education. It was a real eye-opener: just under 1,000 ...

Poetry is everywhere, says Stefania Gomez, the Education and Youth Services Assistant at Chicago’s Poetry Foundation Library — and she’s on a mission to share that message with young people. “There is ...

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 that ...

To be or not to be? Young poets might know the question from William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” from movies or television, but not from reading the Bard himself. And it might not matter. Kids are creating ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. With Mother’s Day just behind us and Father’s Day on the horizon, it’s only fitting that this Sunday is National ...

The Poetry Foundation announced Tuesday that “Revenge of the Lunch Ladies” author Kenn Nesbitt will be its next children’s poet laureate, a position the foundation created in 2006 to recognize that ...