For two years, Antwon Rose’s poem lived in his 10th grade English teacher’s electronic grade book, largely forgotten. After he was shot dead by police, she found it again.

His poems are forthcoming or have been published by The Academy of American Poets, Crazyhorse, The Greensboro Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Massachusetts Review, Mississippi Review, New ...

What Langston Hughes’ Powerful Poem “I, Too” Tells Us About America’s Past and Present Smithsonian historian David Ward reflects on the work of Langston Hughes. David C. Ward.

“America, the Beautiful,” Bates’s poem, set to music, became the United States’ unofficial anthem, a hymn of love of country. There are plenty of better poems about America, the land and ...

The process of writing autobiographical poems forced him to question his own cultural identity and what it means to be an American in the early 21st century.

“Lost in America” is a poem of powerful juxtapositions. It has the appearance of prose, yet through anaphoric repetition, it creates a rhythmic experience closer to sacred and liturgical poetry.

The Poem That Changed America "Howl" Fifty Years Later. Edited by Jason Shinder. Farrar Straus Giroux. 288 pp. $30 Friday, April 14, 2006 . Chapter One . VIVIAN GORNICK . WILD AT HEART * * * ...

For two years, Antwon Rose’s poem lived in his 10th grade English teacher’s electronic grade book, largely forgotten. After he was shot dead by police, she found it again.

What Langston Hughes’ Powerful Poem “I, Too” Tells Us About America’s Past and Present. Smithsonian historian David Ward reflects on the work of Langston Hughes ...

For two years, Antwon Rose’s poem lived in his 10th grade English teacher’s electronic grade book, largely forgotten. After he was shot dead by police, she found it again.

She read the poem to Lentz on the phone and began to cry. Arthrell printed 10 copies and set out for Antwon's family's home in Rankin, a borough in Allegheny County, crying along the way. She ...