"By the second line, I couldn't say it out loud because my lip was quivering." It's a rite of passage many parents are familiar with – that emotional experience sending kids off to kindergarten for ...

While poetry might seem like the realm of intellectuals, this literary domain is vast, encompassing everything from the love poems we send our sweethearts on Valentine’s Day to the funeral poems we ...

Tom Angleberger is the author of the popular Origami Yoda series and the Flytrap Files series, as well as several other books for kids. Here he reflects on his new book, Dino Poet: A Graphic Novel, ...

Critics of poetry say it is stiff, boring and inaccessible. Ask any child who has ever read a Shel Silverstein poem, and he or she will say otherwise. Years after reading Silverstein’s poems, it is ...