There are many reasons why poems serve as good reading material for children, which is why we created a list of funny poems for children. Those reasons include the fact that poetry helps develop a ...

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 ...

When poetry editor Lou Peacock compiled A Whale of a Time: Funny Poems for Each Day of the Year, she chose Rita Dove’s “The First Book” to be the entry for January 1. The poem describes what it’s like ...

Childhood is a magical time, a period of wonder and innocence. It's a time when we explore the world with curious eyes and ...

With Christmas just around the corner, you've probably been busy preparing your house for the upcoming festivities. Cook up some holiday appetizers for your upcoming Christmas party? Check. Trim the ...

Go Ask Mom readers know that I features local moms in this space every Monday. But in June, in honor of Father's Day, I'll be featuring some local dads who are doing great things for their kids and ...

The poems in Climbing Shadows were inspired by a class of kindergarten children whom poet and playwright Shannon Bramer came to know over the course of a school year. She set out to write a poem for ...

Happy National Limerick Day 2016! Today is all about word play and rhymes to celebrate the birthday of English artist and writer Edward Lear. Lear, who was born in 1812, was all about a bit of fun and ...

New picture books by Judith Viorst, Julie Fogliano and Skila Brown. These brief, impressionistic poems about the seasons are all titled with a day of the year, journal-like. Fogliano (“And Then It’s ...

We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, edited by Ruth McKee, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with contributions from acclaimed authors and book industry ...