We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer ...

Every day he’d spend his lunch hour roaming Midtown Manhattan, and every afternoon he’d write a poem about his walk, sometimes between taking tickets and selling postcards. Over the course of ...

From delightful Christmas poems for kids that inspire little ones to become Santa’s little helpers to famous poems that bring warmth and joy to cold winter days, these poems capture the magic of ...

There are some guarantees with the Typewriter Rodeo, including, almost every year, we’ll have a back-to-school poem, a ...

The brainchild of former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, the National Favorite Poem Project was launched in 1997 to celebrate the sheer pleasure of poetry with the public ...

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out by Ralph Fletcher Fletcher is one of my favorite authors for teaching writing. This book on teaching poetry helps teachers understand and embrace ...

Recent books he loved writing are "The Father Goose Treasury of Poetry for Children," Schiffer Kids, 2023 (“because it includes 101 favorite poems by the poet that introduce kids to poetry ...

Who are some of your favorite poets and do you have a favorite poem that you keep in your pocket or recite at special occasions? So many favorite poets, so any time I do one of these lists, I feel bad ...

I was caught off-guard for a second, then I thought perhaps the best answer would be to simply share an example of how I got an idea and how I developed it into a poem. I picked one of my most ...