When the teacher tells his class that they can hear the poetry of science in everything, a student is struck with a curse and begins hearing nothing but science verses that sound very much like some well-known poems.

A shy girl celebrates winter's end by writing a poem to a tree and is surprised when the tree writes back.

Fern dares Arthur and his friends to enter the poetry writing contest at the local library, but writing poems turns out to be harder than they thought.

When someone takes a pet goldfish and other items from Ms. Herschel's classroom, each time leaving a poem as a clue, student Edgar competes with a classmate to be first to solve the mystery.

After his mother, hurrying to her tuba lesson, tells him that a poem will cure his pet fish's boredom, a little boy tries to find out what a poem is by asking friends, neighbors, and other members of his family.

California, 1991. "I only ever talk to this journal. Is there an alternate universe? Another planet? Please could you beam me up, Holy Father?" Paris-born Vivienne Lebrun longs for a different life. One where she doesn't attend college three thousand miles away from her family in New York City. A life where she is sophisticated and has kissed many men, both standing up and sitting down, like the lovers in Rodin's sculpture. In that life, she would...