Jean Prokott—a decade-long Century High School English teacher, the city’s third Poet Laureate, a recent recipient of a $50K ...

MATT WALSH (HOST): Now, of course, when this dumb politician says that America no longer ... he's talking about the poem. Right? And especially the part that says, give me your tired, your poor ...

On Jan. 20, 2021, two weeks after the horrific attack on our Capitol by some of our fellow Americans, President Joe Biden was inaugurated.

Maya Angelou didn’t hold back. From defying racism to reclaiming womanhood, her fiercest words still cut through noise and ...

Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ... As one of America’s most well-regarded poets, Emily Dickinson has more than a few famous poems to her name. In this one, she explores themes ...

“Thrilled to Death” is a selection of Lynne Tillman’s fiction from the 1980s to the present day. How do you know you’re ...

It's not easy expressing your adoration for the woman in your life. Select some love poems for her and tell her how you ...

“Monnijeo” is his most famous poem, at least one of the first poems that all Koreans learn in school. The music was written by Jo Hye-yong, and the performance was wonderful. It’s an absolutely ...

Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people. One of America’s most ... A tree is something in me, Very still and lonely now. Born in 1902, Arna Bontemps had this short poem selected for ...

The author on the aha moment that led to writing about her often harrowing upbringing, why her father was her first reader, ...

matthews — who prefers to write his name in lowercase because he believes his name is insignificant compared to the message he has to give — doesn’t just read his poems; he treats them like theatrical ...