A rural teacher in Hunan uses poetry to help left-behind children express loneliness, hope and resilience. Their poems, rich with imagination and emotion, reveal the hidden worlds of migrant-worker ...
John Kenney has followed up Love Poems (for Married People) with Love Poems (for People with Children). It includes poems such as "3:32a.m. and I... Sleep Loss, Sunscreen, And Very Little Sex In These ...
Parenting young children can be extremely taxing, but also beautiful – and hilarious. That nuance is at the core of Loryn Brantz's new poetry... Loryn Brantz's 'Poems of Parenting' gives parents ...
"She comes from a family where boys are prized over girls, (which is) not uncommon in this remote part of the country, yet ...
Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day," celebrating the winter solstice, is also a children's book illustrated by Carson Ellis. They collaborated by mail. SUSAN COOPER: (Reading) So the shortest day ...
When Amanda Gorman read her poem, “The Hill We Climb,” at former President Joe Biden’s inauguration, she became the youngest poet to deliver a poem at a presidential inauguration. Although the 26-year ...