Children
Begin in delight, end in wisdom.
Children’s Poems
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poemBy Naomi Shihab NyeMusic lives inside my legs.It’s coming out when I talk.I’m going to send my valentinesto people you don’t even know.Oatmeal cookies make my throat gallop.Grown-ups keep their feet on the groundwhen they swing. I hate that.Look at those 2 o’s...
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poemBy Tina Boyer BrownImagine the lunchroom,crowded and wary—seating charts a welcome apprehension.Loose-leafpapers spiraled fromballpoint-scratched notebook coversuntil the last hour,when a teachersighed and sighed.Today, we close our backpacks,but minutescome quick and quitthe ease of dawn.
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poemBy Robert FrostNature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.
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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, Elizabeth Acevedo.
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Book PickPicked By Elizabeth Acevedo September 2023
Plantains and Our Becoming, a coming-of-age memoir in poetry, is a self-described collection centered on love. When I first read this collection,...
Children's Videos
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VideoFrom Poetry EventsA special reading and Q&A for teenagers with Young People’s Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye.
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VideoFrom Ours Poetica
José Olivarez reads “Como Tú” (“Like You”)
