

Piano Keys to Poetry
Someplace along the education spectrum, children are introduced to poetry. They love it. Then something happens. Poetry becomes the obtuse, and many kids feel as if they are not smart enough or that poetry somehow makes them feel less. They abandon it, resist it. These are terrible truths. Truths that happen because educators do not always know the keys to entrance themselves, so they are not able to hand over those keys that children need to enter into layered, intriguing po