Today’s program considers poems that are about children or that include children as parts of the poems’ principal themes. There are many contrasting visions of the state in which children live and I take a look at some depictions of children and of childhood in the works of some contemporary poets that may address two of those contrasts – innocence and experience. I read poems by William Blake, Lithuanian poet Nijolė Miliauskaitė, Julie Chappell, Alan Berecka, and Chinese poet Li Nan. I end the program with one of my own poems that presents a similar theme.