NPR's Rachel Martin talks to poet in residence Kwame Alexander, who shares his latest community crowd-sourced poem about the goals that teachers, parents and students have set for themselves.

Andrea Gibson poem quotes revisited as fans honor the beloved poet and queer activist following their passing at 49.

“The poem seems to have arrived at a time when people are both lamenting the state of the world but also—as Pollyanna as it must sound—looking for hope,” Smith told the Daily Dot in an email.

It’s far easier to Google a poem, but sometimes I want to see poetry on the page, how I might have seen it at 19 or 23 or 30, before everything was one tap away. Still, it’s fun to think about all the ...

Writing poems following my lymphoma diagnosis gave me hope and purpose as I endured chemo, helping me heal and share my ...

A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political ...

Alicia Keys Pens Touching Poems About Her Son And Hope As Protests Continue. Derrick Rossignol Music News Editor Twitter. June 4, 2020. People cope with stress and tragedy in different ways.

In Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words On Race And Hope, Kwame Alexander writes of the killing of George Floyd, Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protests, and the election of Barack Obama.

Philadelphia poet laureate Trapeta B. Mayson on Monday launched the Healing Verse Philly Poetry Line (1-855-763-6792), a toll-free telephone line that offers callers a 90-second poem by a ...

Like many I spent yesterday morning reading everything I could about the 49 people who were killed at Pulse in Orlando, Florida. Reading about the grieving family members. Reading about the killer.