Poetry written especially for children is perfect for those developing brains: because poems for children tend to be short, ...

Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...

Recent books he loved writing are "The Father Goose Treasury of Poetry for Children," Schiffer Kids ... I like to allow time for students and teachers to ask questions. Recently a student asked ...

Harrison, who has written dozens of books, contributed one poem and reached out to other poets to select or write one for children ... was so impressed the first time I saw her.

It was more like my children kind of broke me open and all these poems started pouring out ... about all these things for them all the time.” Brantz said that sometimes people think of ...

Year after year, millions of children fall behind in reading, and the consequences are profound: reduced lifetime earnings, ...

Was distilled in a head that so badly wanted to undo me, It was as if she disinvented all the wars that festered and boiled At the edges of humanity for that sole purpose. But they are the ...

It might be hard to believe now, but I was painfully shy as a child — outside the house. At home, I was as brazen as the next ...

When fire engulfed the ancestral home of the de Peralta family in Dingras, Ilocos Norte on Sept. 11, 2021, it destroyed ...

Maria Shriver gets candid about her difficult divorce, struggles with self-worth and more in her new poetry book, ‘I Am Maria' ...

I just hope that my kids know that they were ... voice for causes all her life. But her poetry, she says, is her private voice – and this time, Maria Shiver's cause is herself.

We thought words travelled the wires / In the shiny pouches of raindrops …” – The Railway Children, Seamus Heaney; Poems on the Underground, January 1986.