there’s a poem for everyone,” she says. Next, decide what you want to write about. Simple as it sounds, this can often be the hardest step for writers. What do you want to say? Finally ...

Memorising a poem requires focus and practice, but there are things you can do that help. Remember the story the poem is telling. Focus on the rhythm of the poem. Look at the rhyming words used in ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — ...

David L. Harrison Many classroom visits ago, a second-grade boy rose from his seat as I was introducing a poem and called out, “Don’t talk, just do the poems!” With that in mind I will keep ...

It’s not flowery language or clever lines that make a poem interesting — those things can help create the magic ... components of storytelling. What do you need to fly a kite?