Happy World Poetry Day!

Today 
today – March 21st – is
World Poetry Day, didcha know?

Established by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, the purpose of celebrating today is:
“to promote the reading, writing, publishing and teaching of poetry throughout the world” and, as the UNESCO session declaring the day proclaims, to “give fresh recognition and impetus [...]

The Boy Who Loved Words by Roni Schotter

*And just in time for upcoming National Poetry Month, in April! 
     For young readers (and/or parents, teachers, caregivers) who hone a passionate predilection for spry, savory and scrumptious tales, which with real gusto (and giggles galore) celebrate the often-tantalizing (if not tintinnabulating) pulsing rhapsody of the harmoniously luscious poetry of WORDS, then have I got a [...]

Langston Hughes (Poetry for Young People series) edited and with introduction by Arnold Rampersad & David Roessel; illustrations by Benny Andrews

“There are words like Freedom / Sweet and wonderful to say. / On my heartstrings freedom sings / All day everyday.”
“There are words like Liberty / That almost make me cry. / If you had known what I know / You would know why.”
     As one of more than 25 poems – or parts [...]

The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry, edited by J.D. McClatchy

The Gorgon Goddess by Evie Shockley