For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem "Shortest Day" into a children's book. (This story first aired on Weekend ...

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Patch has partnered with T-Mobile to share local children's letters to Santa (and other festive musings) this holiday season.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.” — Max Ehrman, American poet, lawyer Hello ...

Author Carlos Matias and Ezra Jack Keats Award–winning illustrator Gracey Zhang deliver a stunning picture book based on a ...

Recite these cozy Christmas poems to share the holiday spirit and make even your Grinchiest loved ones say, "Ho, ho, ho!" ...

Friend and author Renée Watson confirmed Giovanni died Monday with her lifelong partner Virginia Fowler by her side.

Razor is already a popular name for regular kick scooters for kids, so the brand’s expansion into electric scooters makes ...

Ms. Giovanni wrote poetry and prose that celebrated Black identity and attacked white supremacy, yet, at times her verse took ...

Singer-songwriter Joan Baez's collection of autobiographical poems, When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance, is one of the ...

NEW YORK — Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first ...