This performance, art and writing workshop led by children’s poet extraordinaire Richard Lewis features a parade in spring-time imagining hats.
Children's Events Archive
May 01, 2010
May 15, 2010
Author and illustrator of prizewinning children’s books, Calef Brown reads from his most popular works and reveals how he creates his illustrations and madcap poems.
May 29, 2010
Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Robert Hass shares his own poems of the natural world as well as those by children across the country.
October 23, 2010
“Ghostwriter” Bobbi Katz shares hair-raising poems from her new book The Monsterologist: A Memoir in Rhyme, the spooky account of a man who devotes his life to the study o
November 06, 2010
Young poets break impossible world records of their own invention in this writing workshop with Karen Benke, author of Rip the Page: Adventures in Creative Writing.
December 04, 2010
Poet and educator Richard Lewis leads an exploration of the poetry of shivering winds and frozen rivers, mounds of snow and seamless skies.
February 12, 2011
In celebration of Valentine’s Day, Poets House presents Albert Lamorisse’s timeless children’s film classic The Red Balloon. Afterward, children will make their own floating valentines
March 19, 2011
Carin Berger shares the poetic story of a bluebird and a brown rabbit whose friendship survives migration and winter.
April 16, 2011
Illustrator for the New Yorker and creator of over a hundred children’s books, James Stevenson reads from Popcorn, Sweet Corn, Just Around the Corner
May 14, 2011
A translator from the French of many children’s books and a renowned poet, Marie Ponsot shares her favorite fairy tales.


