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 says his poetry — a term he uses loosely — is poetry in the same sense that "Arby's is farm-to-table dining." His new collection is called Love Poems (for People with Children). "What time ...

The prolonged absence of parents often places grandparents, as the children's primary caregivers, at the center of their ...

Dear Abby: My son and his wife just gave us the news that they are expecting their first child. They have waited five years for this wonderful milestone, and I am delighted. I know they will be ...

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, ...

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

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 ...