Welcome to Poetry4kids. Im Kenn Nesbitt. A couple of years ago my friend, the childrens poet Janet Wong, asked if I would contribute a poem to an anthology she was creating with childrens literatur

Welcome to Poetry4kids. Im Kenn Nesbitt. As a student, I remember being so tired in school some days that I would fall asleep at my desk and the teacher would have to wake me up. I was never so tired

Ideas for poems can come from lots of different places. Sometimes when I write a poem, the idea starts with a single word or a phrase. In this case, I was thinking about the upcoming holidays, Hallowe

Welcome to Poetry4kids. Im Kenn Nesbitt. With Halloween just around the corner, I wanted to write a poem about the holiday. I had already written a poem about spooky monsters called The Monsters Th

Every now and then, theres a day when you just dont want to get out of bed. Rather than take on the new day, you just want to stay under the blankets and sleep. I wrote this poem because I started t

I recently had a half birthday, which falls in August since my real birthday is in February. Because of this, I was thinking about writing a half-birthday poem. By the time I started working on it,

I wrote this poem in honor of my dear friend, the childrens poet Jack Prelutsky, who turned 84 in recently. Jack was born in 1940, which, according to Chinese astrology, was the Year of the Dragon. I

Do you ever feel like the summer sometimes seems too short? One minute youre having fun in the pool and the next thing you know, youre sitting in class practicing spelling and arithmetic. At least,

Hi, Im Kenn Nesbitt. Welcome to todays episode of Poetry4kids! With the new school year just starting up here in the U.S., I couldnt help but think about all those shiny, new back-to-school supplie

With the start of a new school year right around the corner, I thought it would be fun to write a humorous back-to-school poem. While kids often feel sad that summer is over and they have to go back t