Pioggia is an Italian poem about rain by Giovanni Pascoli (1855 – 1912). Below you can listen to a recording, follow along in the original Italian and then read an English translation of the poem. First a note about the illustration, in English we say “It’s raining cats and dogs” when it’s raining very hard....

Cyclops Wearing flip-flops is a book of multilingual poetry.  There are poems in this volume by some of the masters… and they’re translated by kids!  These children took part in a translation workshop called "Poetry Inside Out".  There are also original poems by some of the students in the book.  Here are a couple of...