Kwame Alexander won the Newbery award in 2015 for his sports themed novel-in-verse The Crossover, and is now touring the country to promote its prequel, Rebound. Next spring, he’ll begin publishing ...

Fourth-grader Cade Maxwell stood confidently before a room filled with his peers from First Odessa Christian Academy and their parents and began to read a poem from his self-authored book, “The Buddy ...

Charissa and Josiah Cogan join Ben Willcox, (right) young adult librarian at the Nathan Hale Library, as he prepares for an Anonymous Poetry Contest for Teens, part of Teen Read Week. Poetry slams and ...

World poetry day aims to encourage the return of poetry recitals so they stay relevant in today's society. happy-world-poetry-day Its World Poetry Day, a United Nations-approved observance that ...

As a young conservatory student in 1993, I was talking with a classmate. He told me that his teacher, a prominent trumpet player in the New York Philharmonic, would begin each weekly lesson by having ...