After my dad was disappeared abroad, he fled to this land, which exemplified respect for law and a welcome for refugees.

An anthology of her teenage poetry, published for the first time, shows ambition, even if the verse isn’t perfect.

"The president is exploiting the fault lines that have long existed in the uncaring and unequal way we treat each other," ...

LBCC students were captivated by poet and professor Donato Martinez, as he discussed the struggles of growing up Mexican-American, craving affection and the importance of language, during a poetry ...

I realize the time that has passed, and I am a few thousand miles away from my mistakes, And a few light years from the person I used to be, And a little less annoyed.

And there is no question that the 1861 poem made Revere into a household name, 86 years after the midnight ride and more than four decades after his death. And it happened at a time in American ...

This is not the first book to establish Whitman’s desire to turn ‘America … a poem’ into an American poem – many of the biographies preceding it have done the same. Where it scores is in the use of ...

Where am I going? Who am I?" she said. "And I just sat down and looked out the window and started writing, and out it came." What came out? Poetry. From "Fragments of Me" They are everywhere.

I have also sensed the confusion and frustration of my friends and neighbors. I am sad. Not depressed, but a kind of sadness that seems almost universal. What is happening to us, I wondered. And then ...