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  • Essay on Children's Poetry

    Children’s Poetry

    By Eileen Myles
    Giving children the gift of language in all its forms.
    Image of wooden Scrabble tiles spelling the word "POETRY"
  • Essay on Children's Poetry

    Poetry is an Egg with a Horse Inside

    By Matthea Harvey
    Don’t underestimate what your students can understand how they will face the mysteries of poetry.
    Image of colorful children's drawing, featuring several houses and a park.
  • Essay on Children's Poetry

    Lift Every Voice

    By Jacqueline Woodson
    Poetry takes many forms—including the form YOU give it.
    Writer Jacqueline Woodson sitting on a bench outdoors, cropped from the chest up.
  • Essay on Children's Poetry

    Lullabies for Maniacs

    By Kevin Canfield
    Pop star Natalie Merchant takes on poetry in her ambitious double album.
  • Essay on Children's Poetry

    Home Appreciation

    By Susan Thomsen
    Homeschoolers are turning a million kids on to poetry–through fun, not homework. Here's how you can do it too.
    Image of colorful houses on a street in Quebec, Canada.
  • Essay on Children's Poetry

    More than Mother Goose

    By Julie Danielson
    From William Shakespeare to Francisco X. Alarcón, 20 great books for your children to read over the holidays.
    Image of second-hand children's books on a bookshelf.
  • Essay on Children's Poetry

    Lunchbox Poems

    By Julie Danielson
    Some poetic treats to snack on throughout the school year.
    Image of a lunchbox with assorted food and snacks on a wooden table.
  • Essay on Children's Poetry

    Dragons Pulling Wagons

    By Jack Prelutsky
    An introduction to Karla Kuskin's poetry for children.
    Black and white image of the children's poet Karla Kuskin in a scarf, leaning against a pole outside.
  • Essay on Children's Poetry

    No Nightmares, Please

    By Jeff Gordinier
    Why is so much children's poetry full of sadism and doom?
  • Essay on Children's Poetry

    A Children’s What?

    By The Editors
    On Jack Prelutsky, the nation’s first Children’s Poet Laureate.
  • Essay on Children's Poetry

    Listen to This

    By Susan Hutton
    An appreciation of the tongue-twisting and incantatory mix in a new anthology of children’s poetry.
  • Essay on Children's Poetry

    Again! Again!

    By Sonia Levitin
    Children’s poetry and the joys of repetition.
    Illustration of a pattern of origami folded animals.
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