It was heartening to see that many people live with pure childlike innocence and write children’s poetry, as observed while ...

Born in 1987 in Seoul -Graduated from Gongju National University of Education and Korea National University of Education with ...

In yesterday’s Poem of the Day, James Weldon Johnson’s speaker meditates on the fraught sense of identity between father and son, the father recognizing himself in his child, but wishing, at least on ...

Here, for this season of school and football–and also of terror–is Rosanna Warren's poem, "Child's Room in Autumn:" The scene is about order, the maple tree a conflagration trapped in the rectangle of ...

SUSAN COOPER: (Reading) So the shortest day came, and the year died. And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world came people singing, dancing to drive the dark away. COOPER: (Reading) ...

Somewhere in the middle decades of the 20th century, advanced poetic taste decided that sentimentalism in general, and the sentimentalism of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) in particular, was ...

What is it about life’s big and little moments that calls for a poem? At weddings. At funerals. On greeting cards. In church. On the radio. At moments of great happiness or deep sadness. At beginnings ...

‘‘You must grow wildly over the graves’’ rings too true for what many of us have known, for what many of us must find ways to tell our children. I write this thinking about Emmett Till and about how a ...

Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day," celebrating the winter solstice, is also a children's book illustrated by Carson Ellis. They collaborated by mail. SUSAN COOPER: (Reading) So the shortest day ...