MY daughter is eight. When she was one, I began reading aloud to her the greatest imaginative poetry available. With as much expression as if I were reading to a grown person, I went over and over ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. With Mother’s Day just behind us and Father’s Day on the horizon, it’s only fitting that this Sunday is National ...

A new bilingual edition of Kadya Molodowsky’s enchanting Yiddish children’s poetry was recently published in Sweden. Edited and masterfully translated into English by Yaira Singer, “Through an Endless ...

If you haven’t read “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” nursery rhyme in a long time, you might want to revisit it. Cheer on the spider for climbing up the spout again and listen to the poetry of the rhymes. That ...

CHICAGO -- Peh'Tehn Raighn-Kem, 3, is big inspiration in a tiny package as she performs the poem "Hey Black Child" by Countee Cullen on Windy City Live. Peh'Tehn's parents, Lashaun and Andrea Jackson, ...

A version of this story ran in the January / February 2025 issue. Write about the untouchable. Something out of arm’s reach, like freedom, the stars, or you. Write an ode to misfits. A poem of praise ...