Poetry by children

Not to be confused with poetry for children.

Poetry by children includes poems written by authors before reaching adulthood.

Notable poets, like Thomas Chatterton, Mattie J. Stepanek, and Hilda Conkling, only produced works as children or teenagers.

200 global poems by children were collected in Richard Lewis's 1966 anthology Miracles. Its poem "My Brain" was quoted by psychoanalysts and musicians for decades, including composer Gershon Kingsley, psychedelic band Perth County Conspiracy, poet Louis Dudek, and psychoanalyst Peter Levine.

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