Poem

We’re right in the middle of that hot spell of summer that the ancients called the “dog days,” and William Jay Smith has some poems for us today about this steamy time.

William Jay Smith is one of our leading poets for young people. He joins us today with some poems to begin the month of July.

That’s Nikki Giovanni reading part of her lyric, mythic poem, “Ego-Tripping.”

It’s springtime, and the playgrounds are finally un-thawed and ready for games. Here’s Kevin Shortsleeve with some thoughts about one of the ways kids choose up sides.

You’re hearing Ruthie, who’s eight, reciting part of the poem, “Where a Cloud Sleeps” from a wonderful CD called “Re-Bop Read Aloud / For Kids, By Kids” from ReBop Records in Marshfield, Vermont.