Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and one of America's best-selling poets, reads his poem "The Dead" with animation by Juan Delcan of Spontaneous. Noted for their intelligent humor,...

Video poetry for kids. This empowering,inspiring video introduces poetry to kids ages 1 and up. The first in a series created by parents especially for toddlers and young children.

My ship is waiting and I have to go. Yes, this is our farewell. I won't say I'll Return, sweet Princess. But I won't forget The fairest of the maids who dropped their veils And laundry baskets...

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of...

(after being stopped after my day-care shift) Exhausted, overwhelmed, confused, up-set. As when a toddler bellows on the rug. So small and powerless, her needs unmet, she fights me, but I...

How strong it is, this feeling of regret, You long to see the lands and loves you've known. (For Eden's flowers fade if you forget) In dreams you may return, but wake alone. Yes, now I know...

The ghosts come out to meet me from their sleep. Not as my parents do they watch the door, but from each photo's frozen face they peep and haunt the habits I can wear no more. They summon...

This is a silly Thank You poem I wrote upon receipt of a very decadent Christmas gift from my niece and family. The few sung portions are from another poem I wrote about the small community my...

Looking back.

GOING TO COLLEGE
By Reid Baer

I grew up in Indiana -
a university town - with
parents as university
professors in a family
of compliant scholars...