The desire to be a cowboy even reached this reporter. In 1994, Kit Williams rhymed her way through cowboy poetry camp, where ...

More: Poetry from Daily Life: For a ballad, pick a beat and pick a rhyme, then stick with it A lot of poetry these days is written in free verse, which doesn’t stick to a steady, repeated rhythm ...

Poetry is usually short, and the rhythm and rhyme embedded in poetry for children make poems easy to learn to read. Even children who struggle in learning to read can achieve success in learning ...

These earliest rhymes give us a primitive, rhythmic sense of what poetry can feel like. In school we move on to the study and memorization of Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Emily Dickinson, and ...

Poetry is usually short, and the rhythm and rhyme embedded in poetry for children make poems easy to learn to read. Even children who struggle in learning to read can achieve success in learning ...

Poetry matters. Two new books remind us why. Edward Hirsch’s “The Heart of American Poetry” and Brad Leithauser’s “Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry” give reason to slow down ...