Indiana author Rebecca Kai Dotlich writes about how a childhood spent collecting lyrics and words sparked her love of poetry.

My first life-changing word- experience happened when my seventh-grade English teacher, a woman for whom I had great respect and affection, realized that I had a desperate crush on a boy in my class.

No one believes me when I tell them I’m 90. On a first visit to a doctor, the doctor opened the door and said, ‘I’m in the wrong ...

Words. What beautiful things to have woven through a life. Rebecca Dotlich's books have received a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, an AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize Finalist, a Bank Street Best Book of the ...