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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 ...

RENEE MONTAGNE, host: April is National Poetry month, and one author has come up with a way to make poetry fun for kids. Karen Jo Shapiro has written poetry set to - not exactly the tune of famous ...

A sports writer wrote a book of poems for kids? A skeptical belly laugh might reasonably follow. After that . . . well, let me explain. It’s not as crazy as it sounds. Really. There actually ...

Instead of greeting cards and chocolates this Valentine's Day, poet Kwame Alexander has packaged up for you a poem inspired by kids' definitions of love. Last month, NPR asked elementary and high ...

They now have an illustrated book of poetry called Words with Wings and Magic Things. "One of the ways I describe this book ...

“Poetry leaves something out,” our columnist Elisa Gabbert says. But that’s hardly the extent of it. By Elisa Gabbert I once heard a student say poetry is language that’s “coherent ...

Springfield school librarian Angela Knight started reading a poem a week to the hundreds of students at Harrison Elementary. The weekly poem became so popular that if she even hinted at skipping a ...

“I have a dream.” You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during ...