Gorman cautions parents to be awake to the rise in book bans across the country, which will primarily impact children of middle and low-income families.

All of us as vital as the one light we move through.” Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read for Joe Biden’s presidency in 2021, made her a breakout ...

Amna Nawaz spoke with Gorman about how the poem came to be and her new children’s book, “Girls on the Rise.” And before we go, we want to take some time for reflections about how people are ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...

Take these lines from the middle of “In the Middle of My Life,” a poem in Jennifer Chang’s recent collection “An Authentic Life”: She quotes a little more from James Longenbach’s book ...

Makar Sankranti, celebrated across India in mid-January, marks the Sun's transition into Capricorn. This festival honors the Sun God, signifies the end of the winter solstice, and celebrates the ...