Dozens of primary school children celebrated the history and culture of the East End through the medium of poetry. Pupils from four eastern schools did poetry readings and a musical number in honour ...

Plus, poetry lends itself to teaching kids about figurative language, voice, sensory images, showing, not telling, and more. National Poetry Month is in April! Founded in 1934, the Academy of ...

You had saved and stored 80 pictures of me and sent them to other children. I was taken advantage ... He also has an eye-popping rap sheet that included stealing more than $300,000 from an elderly ...

Nursery rhymes teach children all manner of things using the language of poetry, writes Australian author and researcher ...

For many readers, “The Land Between the Rivers” will be an introduction to Todd Nelson and his lovingly crafted observational prose. For others, Nelson may provide a springboard to poems from their ...

For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did not exist. The first to fill that position, administered by the Austin ...

Spring has sprung and the rainy season has begun, but that’s not stopping Hoosiers from getting outside to enjoy the weather and festivities all month long.

Another image ... kids. "I would tell them that, like a musician or an actor, I am using a creative way to highlight writing and reading," Miller said. "My job is to write and perform poetry ...

A new collection of illustrated story poems is told from the perspective ... Here's a way to combine words and pictures, both of which I was interested in. And I took a course in writing and ...

The iconic 90s hip-hop artist was known for his pained intensity. But Dear Mama, a tribute to his mother Afeni, showed off ...

From "Dancing with the Stars: Live!" to a talk by Mary Louise Kelly to a film festival of all documentaries and animated ...