Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires courage, resilience, and to be proud of your culture. This legacy makes ...

Over three decades, in India and the West, I studied literature and read many works, including the Bible and Homer’s epic poems ... and religions within their own historical contexts.

The poetry of Fady Joudah. In his new book of poetry, […], the poet, translator, and ER doctor explores Palestinians’ experiences of exile and displacement—and the difficulty of healing amid ...

“I should’ve taken my own advice. “I knew that night I should’ve thought twice.” The poem by the convicted ... could be allowed to have another child,” she said.

By doing so she has provided a witty and acute anatomy of small-town life and of our own American cultural ... who has her first child, a daughter, at the age of 21. The poems speak not only ...

In his new volume of poetry ... my house,” Joudah asks why they are incapable of seeing “what’s being done / to me now by you.” So delusionally convinced are they of their own ...

Burns wrote this poem during the winter of 1785-6, which was included in the Kilmarnock edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786). It employs the Spenserian Stanza, which was ...

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Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Children's poet Constance Levy, a former educator who lives in St. Louis, encourages readers of all ages to tell their own ...

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.