Today's poem is by Edgar Guest*, a British-born poet who came to America, becoming known as the people's poet for his ...

And not just that--Rudyard Kipling's poem is clearly a product of his time (Victorian and Edwardian eras in Britain) ...

      This is a children's story written and illustrated by a young writer--Ruthie Hudson! And I ...

I've heard the last line of this poem and was delighted when I found it here, in the last poem to celebrate Walt ...

I hope you enjoy today's reading as much as I did in preparing it. As part of celebrating Walt Whitman's 201st ...

Today's poem is part of the collection Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps that are much of Whitman's reflections on his ...

  We start May celebrating Walt Whitman's 201st birthday ALL MONTH LONG! He was born on May 31st, 1819, in ...

  Wine, mythology, poetry, reading aloud . . . it's all come together in today's blog post! Hear how this ...

As part of celebrating National Poetry Month, I found the first African-American woman to publish her poetry! Phillis ...

Continuing to celebrate National Poetry Month, I'm reading part of the prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury ...