Nesbitt will celebrate the launch of “One Minute Till Bedtime” at Auntie’s Bookstore on Saturday. He’ll be joined by two local writers with poems in the collection: Chris Cook and Verla Kay.

Bedtime Story The generator hums like a distant ding an sich. It's early evening, and time, like the dog it is, is hungry for food, And will be fed, don't doubt it, will be fed, my small one. The ...

The poems in “Bedtime Stories” seem to reflect, if not actual dreams, maybe the often-tenuous inner lives of some health care workers.

Many poems—in the Renaissance, for sure, and in all time periods—are steeped in separation anxiety, the very phenomenon I was trying to minimize at bedtime. That is, many poems grapple with ...

There are no more bedtime stories for my son. We’ve never done the traditional ‘read a book before bed’ thing. He’s always requested made-up stories involving whichever character caught ...

Kevin Young first wrote his story about Emile, a boy in love with a field, as a bedtime poem for his son years ago. Now, it lives on as a picture book with watercolor illustrations by Chioma Ebinama.

Some nights, the sound of Harry Styles delicately reciting a bedtime poem echoes off the walls. And on other nights, Regé-Jean Page calmly narrates a story about an English prince.

Some nights, the sound of Harry Styles delicately reciting a bedtime poem echo off the walls. And on other nights, Regé-Jean Page calmly narrates a story about an English prince.

One Minute Till Bedtime: 60-Second Poems to Send You Off to Sleep Kenn Nesbitt, illus. by Christoph Niemann. Little, Brown, $19.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-316-34121-9 ...

Sweet Dreams: Moon Poems for Bedtime Charles Ghigna, illus. by Jacqueline East. Schiffer, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7643-6996-4 ...

Around 10 p.m., Lindsay Colford settles into bed with the dulcet drawl of Matthew McConaughey, who is about to take her on an audio journey through the cosmos until she falls asleep. Some nights, t… ...