We've come to the end of our celebration of National Poetry Month and hope you have enjoyed our focus on all aspects of poetry. Today, w...

Spring-like temperatures have finally come to New York City and the forecast for this weekend is for sunny weather. To add to the good news,...

For people who are intimidated by writing poetry, the diamante poem can be a great format to try first. The diamante is a relatively new for...

Acrostic poems are great fun for children. Most people are familiar with an incarnation of the acrostic poem in which a name or word is writ...

The Yellin Center Blog continues our celebration of National Poetry Month with a profile of the poetic form called the clerihew. The histo...

Beth traveled to Boston to watch a friend run the marathon. Luckily, she left the finish area about an hour before the explosions, and she a...

Head Start , the iconic preschool program begun in 1965, aims to erase the achievement gap between affluent children and poor children by pr...