Children
Begin in delight, end in wisdom.
Children's Poems
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poemBy Padma VenkatramanThinkhow many long yearsthis tree waited as a seedfor an animal or bird or wind or rainto maybe carry it to maybe the right spotwhere again it waited months for seasons to changeuntil time and temperature were fine enough to...
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poemBy Kara Jacksonquiet is a mouth i screw onto my mouthquiet, a twin spinning my evilquiet, a snake i hold without flinchingi treat my quiet like a pocket knifequiet, a blade i sharpen and considerready my quiet for any jawquiet, a suspect...
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poemBy Heid E. ErdrichWhen a whole beingbirths into your handsstill you see your handsno matter how unworldlythe beauty of the childThen the universe of wordsworks past cosmologyto a useful name a handlein English unlike the Indigenousgenderless language of verbsMoon...
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Learning Activities
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VideoFrom Poetry Explorers
Today we’ll make a loom, a very old tool that weavers use to make beautiful textiles and fabrics, and weave a story...
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Browse essays, monthly book picks, and other content by the Young People’s Poet Laureate, Naomi Shihab Nye.
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Book PickPicked By Naomi Shihab Nye July 2022
Of this book, Mary Karr has written, “these poems are like flowers that grow out of bomb craters, and Mosab Abu Toha...
Children's Videos
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VideoFrom A Child's Garden of PoetryPoem by Claude McKay. Read by Ziggy Marley.
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VideoFrom Poem Videos
Created in partnership with Motionpoems, this animated film explores Rhina P. Espaillat’s meditative poem on the cycle of life and the beauty and wisdom that accompany aging.
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VideoFrom Poetry Events
A reading and Q&A for young people with Nikki Grimes.
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