Read Part 1: ‘I Am the Bridge’: How a poem being presented at an African ... of a crowd at the Arvada Center on the nightstand next to her bed. They would be the last thing she saw before ...

Djelloul Marbrook’s poems ... am used to being old” carries no whine or chagrin. It’s just true. Selected by Naomi Shihab Nye By Djelloul Marbrook Just as I am used to being old the next ...

The line comes from the Hughes’s poem “I, too,” first published in 1926. I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother ... and taking their place at the dining room table co-equal ...

his fifth-grade teacher asked her students to write a poem about themselves, beginning every few sentences with "I am." Benjamin couldn't wait to start writing, so he sat down at the kitchen table ...