The 97 poems in My Baby First Birthday, Zhang’s latest collection, masticate this gooey love. They seem to chew, swallow, digest, and shit out the irredeemable injustice and beauty of being born ...

These picture books say it in verse. Everybody Was a Baby Once and Other Poems Allan Ahlberg, illus. by Bruce Ingman. Candlewick, $15.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4682-0. From the creators of The ...

In her poem “amazons,” Lucille Clifton writes of warrior women, each with one remaining breast, dancing fiercely in a circle of shared loss and survival. In “the lost baby poem,&#… ...

Alicia Keys shared a sweet poem reflecting on her 5-year-old son's future amid the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests.. On Instagram, Keys, 39, shared an adorable photo of her son, Genesis Ali ...

In “Baby, I Don’t Care,” one of the most unusual and persuasive books of poems I’ve read in some time, Minnis is not merely conducting a droll séance with the help of Turner Classic Movies.

The Sheimans spent 185 days with their son in the neonatal intensive care unit after he was born prematurely. Mom Maegan wrote an emotional poem to show the staff what they meant to the family.