Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work ...

"By the second line, I couldn't say it out loud because my lip was quivering." It's a rite of passage many parents are familiar with – that emotional experience sending kids off to kindergarten for ...

What may at first glance seem like a simple nature poem holds a deeper meaning that can teach children a lot about our world. First published in 1846, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The Mountain and the ...

Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati met on a blind date. "We share the same agent," explains Burgess. "She said, 'You need to meet this client of mine.'" Over coffee in Brooklyn, they discovered that they ...

Artist Loryn Brantz said a lot of the parenting books that she read before having kids didn’t capture what being a parent was going to feel like from an emotional standpoint. “It'll say, ‘You need to ...

Talk Show Host and Columnist at Seattle Red AM 770 I sometimes walk my dog D’Artagnan to a park not too far away from home. It’s one that I’ve written about before, but I keep noticing that children ...

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 ...