resilience

Why Poetry Matters
Poetry is how we say to the world, and to each other, "I am here." Some of my most beloved poets -- Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Billy Collins and Naomi Shihab Nye -- talk about poetry as a way to document the world and our common experiences, to say what needs to be said in a direct, powerful and beautiful way.
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The Stories That Bind Us: What Are the Twenty Questions?
The major criterion for inclusion in this set of questions was that they test knowledge of things that children could not possibly have learned first hand.
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