This legacy makes her poems a rich resource for teaching kids about Black history. Angelou’s poetry, characterized by its unique rhythm and powerful imagery can be a gateway to understanding the ...

Poetry Month is often the time we remember to teach and read poems with kids and help our children write poetry. But you can read and write poetry with kids all year long–not just during Poetry ...

In music, a drummer or bass guitarist might create the beat for the rest of the band to follow, or a conductor might signal the beat to an orchestra or choir, but in poetry the rhythm is usually ...

He combines the question of the fundamental significance of rhythm for the theory and practice of poetry (= poetics) with that of concrete manifestations of this phenomenon in poetry from ...

I’ve always talked about poetry with my kids the way chefs probably talk to ... were encouraged to spend time with the language and rhythm, not to analyze the poem or try to extract “meaning.” ...

However, the Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho is urging mums and dads to not only read poetry to their kids, but get them writing it too. “I would absolutely encourage parents to try and ...

At the National Finals I think there is going to be all these elementary school kids coming from across the region, so to make poetry feel really meaningful to all these young students is where I ...

YRSA DALEY-WARD: I remember Roald Dahl and reading about kids that had really difficult lives ... YRSA DALEY-WARD: Well, there's something that poetry does to the brain. I think there's the rhythm and ...

For just £5 for three days (11 – 13 July), children aged 6 to 12 can take part in the UK’s biggest Afro-Cuban Dance Festival ...

Known as tsiattista, the tradition combines quick thinking, lyrical flair and a deep sense of cultural pride. A violin and ...

So is the follow-up, "Poems I Wrote When No One Was Looking," and the other poetry books I’ve written since. Now, I tend to write funny rhyming poems. But as I tell kids at school visits ...

Join DiDi Delgado, one of the cofounders of Black Lives Matter Cambridge, for a slam poetry competition Feb. 5 in celebration of Black History Month. “40 Acres & A Slam: a night of rhythm ...