Poem of the Day: ‘Summer Night, Riverside’ Always in Sara Teasdale’s poems, even in her verse for children, beauty and joy are tempered with something complex, darker and stranger than the poems’ ...

With the arrival of the summer solstice, everyone’s favorite season begins. In celebration, here is a roundup of poems for all ages that sing the praises of warm weather, long days, and no school!

When letter-writers need to insert a note after they’ve already used a postscript, what do they do? Add a post-postscript, or, PPS. Those three letters also apply to my reading plans this summer ...

April is National Poetry Month, and one author has come up with a way to make poetry fun for kids. Karen Jo Shapiro has taken the rhythms of famous poems and turned them into poetic parodies for ...

The Boys of Summer. By E. Ethelbert Miller. Carlton, Patrick and I are waiting for autographs outside Yankee Stadium. The summer of 1960 and Mazeroski has not hit the home run which will break our ...