Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work ...

Is it just me, or is Poetry Month everywhere this year? Poet Mary Ruefle had something to say about this: Every April, since the establishment of National Poetry Month, I receive a call from my local ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Alexis Gumbs, a textile artist, political advocate, and presenter at the Will to Adorn program, reads a poem at the closing ceremonies of the 2013 ...

Through the challenges of war and distance, a Ukrainian student channels her feelings into poetry written in English. Linda, a high school tutor, shares this powerful poem and the student’s own ...

Use rhythm, repetition, and rhyme, and rearrange the found words to create your own powerful poem. What if you could write a poem without using your own words? Jeff Kass shows you how to create a ...

Of all the emotions, obvious or hidden in the words of authors far removed from their war-torn homelands, the most readable ...

A Windsor High School junior will take his demanding stage presence to a national audience, performing poetry that speaks to his identity as a person of color. “I am the Smoke King. I am Black,” ...

Cardinals announcer Jack Buck, at a pregame ceremony at Busch Stadium on Sept. 17, 2001, reads a poem he wrote to honor the fallen firefighters and policemen from terrorists attacks in New York and ...