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

As a young girl, I couldn’t name it, but I was falling in love with, and collecting, words. I pasted poems and song lyrics into my diary. I treasured the lyrics found on thin crinkly paper ...

Peter Kahn ’94, long-time spoken word educator, discusses how integrating spoken word poetry into classrooms can transform not just schools, but also the lives of students. Public speaking is ...

From ancient Greek soapbox soliloquies to viral TikTok videos of poetry slams, spoken word has always charged language with kinetic immediacy. Encompassing a unique blend of honesty and an ...

In the heat of the summer, this slow curve of the midyear ... including the forthcoming “Word Made Fresh: An Invitation to Poetry for the Church,” which will be published next year.

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 ...