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 her 1840 “I Slept, and Dreamed that Life was Beauty,” she writes a six-line poem, in tetrameter couplets, about how work, a life of duty, can make real the highest of dreams, a life of beauty. Like ...

Some poems contain a Grimm’s-fairy-tale-type ... Fox Reveals She Wrote Book About the 'Secrets of Men' in Her Life: 'My Freedom Lives in These Pages' Pretty Boys Are Poisonous explores toxic ...

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 ...

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 ...

I had put an email address in the back of the books published as part of the project, asking readers to send me the poems that inspired them. Instead, I received messages, from all walks of life ...

In each stanza, Whyte invites the reader to consider the “questions that can make or unmake a life.” That poem changed my life as I thought about what questions will guide my life — and my ...