Jack Prelutsky, named the first children's poet laureate by the Poetry Foundation, which also helps fund the NewsHour's poetry coverage, talks about his young readers and shares some of his works ...

National Poetry Month always means a shower of lyrical displays in schools, libraries, and bookstores, but some titles rise above the rest. Here’s a look at the season’s standout poetry books ...

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

We gathered a selection of new and forthcoming picture books, anthologies, and novels in verse for young readers to enjoy.

This study examined the poetry preferences of 792 children in grades one, two, and three in a national sampling. The students listened to eight tape-recorded poems per day for eight days. After ...

You know the saying "kids say the darnedest things?" As author Matt Forrest Esenwine explains, they write some pretty wild poems, too.

Bilingual poetry helps children learn a second language and encourages their imagination, says Francisco Alarcón, poet, educator and director of the Teaching of Spanish to Native Speakers Program at ...

Explore a curated list of famous poems that everyone should read, featuring timeless classics and modern masterpieces that inspire and move any reader.

Amid social upheaval, these poems spoke to young people over the heads of the censors about finding and defending the territory of the imagination.