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 Burgess first published his now-famous poem for kids.

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 ...

"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.

The Shadow: Poems for the Children of Gaza (Malta: Horizons, October 2024) is a collection of 42 original poems (21 by Ahmed Miqdad, 21 by John P. Portelli) which depict the state of being of the two ...

Andrew Cunningham, 29, spotted a tip online which suggested supermarkets send free gifts if customers send them a poem. He decided to test it out and wrote brand-specific short poems for 50 of his ...

Vincent van Gogh, “Self-Portrait” (1889) (image courtesy the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC) Editor’s Note: The following poems have been excerpted with permission and adapted ...

Where to read: You can read “The Haunted Palace” at Poetry Foundation. Poe’s The Oval Portrait is one of his shorter stories, but one whose intensity is not limited by length. The short ...

MacAskill is the author of three previously published poetry collections, including Shadow Blight , winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry in 2022. Her fiction has previously ...

Released in 2022, in the wake of Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody, the song has become an anthem for protests in Iran ...

The great Australian poet Les Murray came into Smiths Alternative Bookshop often. We once discussed his poem about ‘Canberra ...

In Trump, Evangelicals have found a candidate who allows to foment hate, all in the name of God, writes Donovan McAbee.