In one segment, children learn how to make a kaleidoscope and ... but I think anyone can participate in it. People have all kinds of preconceived notions of what poetry looks like and who is it for.

Of all the gifts our children ... cloud-like shapes that I recalled a poetry reading where I heard Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sharon Olds exclaim: “Our children just walk into a room and ...

No. But poetry doesn’t need to be art all the time. It doesn’t have to ... and social studies); the funny poems help to keep the kids “with” me. When they’re having a good time, they ...

(JTA) — Poet and children’s book author Mary Ann Hoberman ... for Me” (1978), which won a National Book Award, and “All Kinds of Families!” (2009), which whimsically celebrated what ...

“There’s children’s literature, young adult literature, adult fiction, and nonfiction. It’s all ages and all types of work. Poetry, prose - it’s all here,” said Ben Treat, director of ...