I am a big fan of both poetry and children, and now is the time to celebrate them both -- April is National Poetry Month! To help parents, I've compiled some excellent web resources for children's poetry (reading and writing) below.Also here's one of my favorite poems ever: Eating Poetry by Mark Strand. Mark passed away last year, but this poem of his lives on, and it is a great reminder of the joy of reading (and eating) poetry. Eating Poetry is one of the first poems I remember reading and completely loving. It makes several leaps of metaphor that just make perfect sense to me, and it has … [Read more...]