But you may not be aware that he was truly a master of quirky poems. Raise the funny factor of this poem by reading it to your kids in a silly voice. This short quatrain was a hit in 1895, when Gelett ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems ... kids that will make you think as much as they’ll make you laugh ...

We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with ...

To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown, and how the pandemic has changed their lives.

Not long after, while writing funny songs for The Rosie O ... a picnic poem (or a poem written by a mouse), and a short, decisive poem. All from kids who had most likely thought that poetry ...

"However, what many may not realize is how heavy the toll is on children and future generations. Here, a collection of art and poems about the climate crisis written by children around the world.

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

Poet J. K. Kennedy discusses balancing humor with anxiety and/or grief in poetry and shares five tricks she uses to illustrate her emotions without letting them turn into quicksand for the reader.

Board games for kids don’t have to be boring ... who chooses a card (without revealing it) and makes a short statement—a sentence, poem, story, song, or even a single word—about what ...

"One of the most familiar symbols of the celebration is the calavera (skull), and travelers to Mexico can buy sugar calaveras or read literary calavera – short, humorous poems that poke fun at ...

In 1951, she married Norman Hoberman, an architect, who illustrated her first book, “All My Shoes Come in Twos” (1957), based on poems she had written for her children. Her husband died in ...