Analysis: The mother’s advice to her son, “Life for me ain’t ... reflects Hughes’s longing for freedom and equality in a ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heidi Mordhorst ... So when I say, “You are the Boss of Your Poem,” the frisson of freedom that ripples through the group is palpable.

In this week's column, author Lesléa Newman offers some advice for overcoming the anxiety that stems from struggling to start ...

In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” The choices we make in a poem — line length, tone, diction, point-of-view ...

or life, too seriously. As in “Love and Other Poems,” his previous collection, Dimitrov’s man-about-town quality is on full display here, though the tone has shifted somewhat. The poems ...

A new anthology of poetry by Iranian women, compiled in the face of violent attacks on life and liberty that began with the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022, who was killed in police custody ...

This week my dear friend, Penny, sent me a powerful poem, read beautifully by an older ... community in the Appalachian Mountains. In my own life, I am dealing with finding the grace and wisdom ...

I like random acts of poetry, moments when we bring poems ... Making books available to prisoners changed your life. What does the future of Freedom Reads look like now? For a long time I was ...

Not much is known about Wheatley’s life before enslavement ... or even find joy in poetry in spite of their lack of freedom. “History is not this binary of Black suffering or Black joy ...