Five poets discuss their recent and forthcoming collections, which pair verse and photography. The second collection by Colin Channer, Console (FSG, July), is inspired by his Jamaican birthplace, his ...

Read aloud picture books and look for simile examples and metaphor examples to learn how writers use figurative language to ...

Countless picture books follow the same narrative structure, in which a character faces a challenge and then — at the end of approximately 500 words — overcomes that challenge, or doesn’t. We call ...

POEMS ALOUD Written by Joseph Coelho. Illustrated by Daniel Gray-Barnett “Poems are made to be performed!” Coelho declares early in this rousing book, which guides young readers through the basics of ...

Poetry, like your dad's jokes or your friend's Snapchat story, is an art form that often straddles the line between mesmerizing beauty and cringe-inducing cliché. In fact, some people hate poetry ...