Joe Coelho looks at how poetry can be performed, bringing the words to life rather than keeping them on the printed page, in ...

If you ever want to move your child out from the digital world and give them at least a part of your own personal childhood experience, check our list for 9 classic poems for children to memorize. The ...

Who shouted for joy at the birth of the color blue? When I look once more at the sea, does the sea see me or not see me? Why do the waves ask me the same questions I ask them? Libro de las preguntas ...

Spurning the free verse of many of his contemporaries, he held to an older tradition. He also wrote spirited poems for children.

In yesterday’s Poem of the Day, James Weldon Johnson’s speaker meditates on the fraught sense of identity between father and son, the father recognizing himself in his child, but wishing, at least on ...

A girl walks in a dried up watering hole in 2015 near Matinyani, Kenya. Kenya's Catholic bishops are appealing to the international community for relief food because of a recent drought. (CNS ...

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This playful poem deserved the first place in our list of 9 classic poems for children to memorize because it shows us that poetry can be both fun and educational. The poem stimulates creativity and ...