Poet Lisken Van Pelt Dus explores themes of identity, displacement and belonging in her new collection, "How Many Hands to ...

Heather Lende, Alaska's previous Writer Laureate, shares a poem read on a cold, dark night during a dinner with friends.

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 ...

We present to you this collection of poems honoring the Virgin Mary written by Thomas Merton. See the end of this page for Thomas Merton in Photographs. Because my will is simple as ... And the whole ...

Apple has released eight chapters of The You You Are, the fictional self help book by Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale that's central to ...

Mitchell plans to spend the year writing poems based on the ... But this is the song of my town, When he first talked to Mayor Andy Ezard about being poet laureate, Ezard "kind of just said, ‘I want ...

Amanda Gorman, a Los Angeles native and the United States' first National Youth Poet Laureate best known for her poem "The Hill ... I am so fortunate that while my own home in the Palisades ...

Lisken Van Pelt Dus sees things we probably never saw in quite the same way, and even as we may recognize these things in our ...

It teaches trust and patience, since any poem has things to show us about the others. My A, B, C and D will be ... in your browser settings. Thank you for your patience while we verify access.

It begins with a like from a cutie patootie, but three weeks later you ... my name with “cafeteria” or “hysteria” before so I’ll give him that. It’s still a no though. Not a poem ...

but for me its naething but what I say i’ my father’s house every day, and I dinna see how he could hae tauld it ony other way’. The poem plays upon major themes in the work of Burns ...

There is much to look forward to. Thank you to everyone for your continued support.” Her message strikes the same encouraging, hopeful tone as Burns's poem. It's also a prime example of exactly what ...