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 ...

Gorman’s poetry touches on issues of the day including civil rights, social justice ... Poems and Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem. “In This Place (An American Lyric) ” is the poem ...

On Thursday, Accurso broke her silence by posting a poem to Instagram. “Children have human rights. These rights are not just for some children, they are for all children," the poem reads.

For the poems are told through the eyes of Rosen as a child, a perspective which, aged 78, he brilliantly recaptures. The first begins: “I can dream myself / back and back and back / as far back ...

Write an ode to misfits. A poem of praise for those who don’t belong here or there. A lyric ballad for the children of nowhere. Employ the interjection Oh at some point in the poem. Remember it ...

Chronicle, $16.99 (44p) ISBN 978-1-4521-0119-4 Poet Laureate Lewis casts a wide net in these stirring poems about ... I hated war.” Children’s books on the subject of civil rights can ...

I recently spoke to a university poetry class and read some poems of mine written for young readers. One was about a child on a swing, listening to his grandfather talk about the old country.

“Our children just walk into a room and give us a poem.” Standing in the living room that morning watching my little boy play at being an artist moved me to write the following poem. Need a brea ...

known for her fierce commitment to human rights and political activism. She founded the Poetry for the People program at U.C. Berkeley and received, among many honors, a congressional citation for ...

From left: Jaiveer, Arya and Nahal took part in the worldwide poetry lesson Children from a Leicestershire secondary school joined 273,000 others worldwide for what they hope will be the world's ...

"Writing poetry is of great significance to children's growth and future. A child's world is small and offers limited choices, but writing poetry can provide them with an emotional outlet ...

Two children from the Thames Valley are among five youngsters battling cancer who have inspired a poem about courage by former children's laureate Joseph Coelho. Eight-year-old Lily, from Witney ...