RENEE MONTAGNE, host: April is National Poetry month, and one author has come up with a way to make poetry fun for kids. Karen Jo Shapiro has written poetry set to - not exactly the tune of famous ...

Rachel Seykot, 10, always loved horses and in third grade, she wrote a poem about a horse for a haiku ... more and she really enjoyed “The Hunger Games” trilogy. “I like to write fictional ...

From delightful Christmas poems for kids that inspire little ones to become Santa’s little helpers to famous poems that bring warmth and joy to cold winter days, these poems capture the magic of ...

What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis and primordial slime?

Harrison, who has written dozens of books, contributed one poem and reached out to other poets to select or write one for children. "I started contacting poets. It didn't take long," Harrison said.

They now have an illustrated book of poetry called Words with Wings and Magic Things. "One of the ways I describe this book is Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids," says Burgess, who remembers ...