But when you look back on who really unlocked the power and potential of poetry for you, there's probably only one answer: Shel Silverstein. Reading Silverstein for the first time is a mind ...

Many of us fondly remember Shel Silverstein as the voice of our childhoods ... we’ve rounded up some of the not-so-child-friendly poems he managed to sneak into his most popular poetry collections.

Shel Silverstein was one of the most talented poets of the last century. If you were a kid who grew up in America, you grew up with his songs, poems, and maybe one or two cartoons that he made, too.

Kai Ryssdal: To mark April being national poetry month we’re spending a couple of Mondays on the poetry of all things economic. A lot of you wrote to nominate “Smart” by Shel Silverstein.

When Shel Silverstein wrote the poem "Years From Now," he seemed to know that one day he'd be gone but that his playful words and images would still be making children happy. "I cannot see your ...

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