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 Month!

Last year, Egypt Morgan, 15, accepted an invitation from poet Ian Keteku to be part of a writing project. “He told me, ‘You’re going to make a poem, we’re going to give it to the artist, they’re going ...

April is National Poetry Month, and one author has come up with a way to make poetry fun for kids. Karen Jo Shapiro has taken the rhythms of famous poems and turned them into poetic parodies for ...

Then with my pen and paint I light up my thoughts into a Limertoon Limertoon’, the portmanteau of limerick (a five-line poem with rhyme scheme AABBA) and cartoon, was coined by the man who loves ...