Children's Video
Introducing children and families to poetry with readings and activities.
Created in partnership with Motionpoems, this animated film features Bruce Lansky’s playful poem-riddle about a familiar friend.
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Created in partnership with Motionpoems, this animated film features Eloise Greenfield’s playful poem about the virtues of patience, perseverance, and preparedness when trying to make the big catch. Suitable for...
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Created in partnership with Motionpoems, this film adaptation of Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Famous” meditates on the human desire to be seen and the individualized ways in which we define recognition.
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Created in partnership with Motionpoems, this arresting animated film explores the imagination and excitement that fuel childhood fears.
Poetry Explorers
Spring has sprung, Poetry Explorers! Let’s pick flowers and make sweet memories. In today’s episode we will make a suncatcher and reflect on how we have grown with the seasons.
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Good evening, Poetry Explorers! What do you like about night-time? Tonight we'll embrace the poetry of the night world and make a mobile, also known as a dreamcatcher.
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With Valentine’s Day and Black History Month, February is a month of love and justice. Today we'll read poems about love and justice by e.e. cummings and Jacqueline Woodson, then...
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What are your favorite things about winter? Is snow on that list? Today we’ll make a “Word Blizzard” snow globe, and think about how a poem might be like snow.
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Today we’ll learn how to make a kaleidoscope and think about how a kaleidoscope might be like a poem.
Readings for Young People
A virtual reading and Q&A with Janet Wong. Wong is the author of more than 30 books for children and teens and is the winner of the 2021 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children, a lifetime achievement award that is one of the highest honors an Am
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A virtual reading, comic game and Q&A with Jillian Tamaki. Tamaki is the author and illustrator of multiple picture books and YA graphic novels, and has won a Governor General's...
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A virtual reading and Q&A with Marilyn Nelson, winner of the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children and the prestigious NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature, among other...
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A reading and Q&A for young people with Nikki Grimes.
A Child's Garden of Poetry
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Poem by Emily Dickinson. Read by Claire Danes and signed by Rachel, age 9.
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Poem by Claude McKay. Read by Ziggy Marley.
Classical Baby (I'm Grown Up Now)
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Animated poem “Mariposa” by Federico García Lorca, read by Andy Garcia.
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Animated poem read by the poet