The hustle and bustle of the school year is in full swing, and, as any humanities student knows, the arrival of the brisk fall air means one thing: hundreds of pages of reading a week! Without labs or ...

Jamila Minnicks and Jo Angela Edwins are featured authors at the Pee Dee Poetry and Fiction festival. Both use their writing as a means to advocate for change.

Jotting down ideas in notebooks is this 12-year-old writer’s secret Just before nap time, Anika Ann Anil conjures and ...

It’s Children’s Book week and the beginning of National American Indian Heritage Month, a good time to explore some newly ...

Walter Bargen and Barbara Leonhard, two poets known and well-loved in mid-Missouri, recently released dispatches into the ...

These poems explore issues that should unite the people. Eriwayo is explicit when she says in her introductory note: “These are an invitation to look beyond the surface differences and then embrace ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

Half of parents of children under five do not read to them every day, a survey has found. The report from the National Literacy Trust found the number had slumped to 50.5 per cent this year ...

Unintentional injury is a leading cause of death among children under age 14. Leading causes of accidental injury at home are burns, drowning, suffocation, choking, poisonings, falls, and firearms.

It was only much later that I realised they were my first attempts at poetry.” He would later ... When rain and mist kept the children indoors (his hometown was, after all, once called the ...

In 2022, UNICEF Nigeria reported that 70% of children in Nigeria are unable to read simple sentences or solve basic math problems. Only 49% of school-aged children meet basic literacy standards ...