Childrens Poetry

What’s Your Word?

Karen Benke | Posted 05.25.2011

Karen Benke

A sense of play and magical thinking is what's naturally alive in children. Poem making is a means for them to strengthen and explore that part of themselves.

Poetry's Decline?

Carol Hoenig | Posted 05.25.2011

Carol Hoenig

I'm sure I'd leafed through The Children's First Book of Poetry when I was a child, but it was more the memory of my mother reciting any number of poems that I cherished.