These lovely short poems for kids will get the little ones excited to read stanza after stanza Short poems for kids that ...

“Musical Tables” is an eccentric book, he says. Collins plans to read 10 or more of the short poems, along with some of his older, longer works, when he comes here Dec. 8 for a ticketed event.

It’s ours. In his 2006 poem “Half Moon, Small Cloud,” the author John Updike proposes a similar theory: The moon is both magical and familiar.