What may at first glance seem like a simple nature poem holds a deeper meaning that can teach children a lot about our world. First published in 1846, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The Mountain and the ...

"There was a boy named Emile / who fell in love with a field," poet Kevin Young writes. "It was wide and blue — and if you could have seen it / so would've you." Emile and the Field is the story of a ...

Of his approach over his half-a-century-and-counting career, former U.S. Poet Laureate and former “American Life in Poetry” columnist Ted Kooser has said, “I write for other people with the hope that ...

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