There are many reasons why poems serve as good reading material for children, which is why we created a list of funny poems for children. Those reasons include the fact that poetry helps develop a ...

April is National Poetry Month, and one author has come up with a way to make poetry fun for kids. Karen Jo Shapiro has taken the rhythms of famous poems and turned them into poetic parodies for ...

This is a great time to head to the library and check out poetry. We salute poets during the month of April, and this week is Young People's Poetry Week. It's also National Library Week. Your family ...

NOT MUCH FUN. The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker. Compiled and with an introduction by Stuart Y. Silverstein. Scribner, $16, paperback. RECENTLY I was asked to judge the annual Willard R. Espy Light ...

While the best days of the holidays are sentimental and sweet, the worst ones can be stressful and frustrating. So when the Christmas season hands you a metaphorical lump of coal (also known as the ...

NOT MUCH FUN: THE LOST POEMS OF DOROTHY PARKER Edited by Stuart Y. Silverstein Scribner, $16, 272 pages REVIEWED BY MARTIN RUBIN If there had been a poet laureate of the United States in her lifetime, ...