With the arrival of the summer solstice, everyone’s favorite season begins. In celebration, here is a roundup of poems for all ages that sing the praises of warm weather, long days, and no school!

Acclaimed author and journalist Trent Dalton wants kids to help him tell the story of the Black Summer bushfires one year on.

Ever since even before William Shakespeare's famous "shall I compare thee to a summer's day" everyone's (well, should be everyone's) favorite season has gone together with poetry like peanut ...

J. M. Allen’s book “Real Rhyming Poems” is available at both the Rochester public library and the RCTC library. The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area writers every Tuesday. Send poems ...

These lovely short poems for kids are perfect for children practicing their reading skills. Hey, they may even think poetry is cool!

Space has been compiled by Gaby Morgan, an Associate Publisher at Macmillan Children’s Books who has run the children's poetry list for thirty years and put together many bestselling anthologies.

Poem of the Day: ‘Summer Night, Riverside’ Always in Sara Teasdale’s poems, even in her verse for children, beauty and joy are tempered with something complex, darker and stranger than the poems’ ...

You don’t have to be a baseball enthusiast to feel the spritz of hope, luck and determination our national pastime engenders in this poem.