My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Alan Katz, who lives in Milford, Connecticut. Alan says, “I’ve been writing since Miss Gordon showed me the alphabet in kindergarten. But I’ve been a ...

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 ...

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One of Topekan Ruth Maus' favorite sayings comes from a Chinese proverb: "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." That single step for Maus started with auditing a class at ...

Basking Shark To stub an oar on a rock where none should be, To have it rise with a slounge out of the sea Is a thing that happened once (too often) to me. But not too often – though enough. I count ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keep reading for 30 kids' poems—from ones written with kindergarteners in mind to short ones and long ones and some of the most ...

One of my strongest poetry memories took place at a black-tie dinner at the Library of Congress where George W. Bush introduced his wife Laura with a poem. He explained that she had been away on a ...

A fiction writer turned poet, a ghost writer of sixty books, Mitch Sisskind, without losing his humor, has lived a writer’s life. A spiritual person, Sisskind finds cosmological joy in the human ...

The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets’ Winter Poetry Festival is a gathering for local artists to share their best, most personal and wackiest poems with the Madison community. This eight-week festival ...