Amaka Felly Obioji makes her poetic manifesto in these sublime lines in the 20th poem: ‘I think my heart is breaking,/ and ...

“Most people think my path in poetry is very untraditional,” she ... Hailing from Cuban and Jamaican heritage, she was raised by her single mother in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New ...

I came across a column of yours that I had clipped and tucked away. On one of the pages I had dog-eared was the poem, “Decide ...

Memorizing a poem first thing in the morning became a ... wearing an N-95 mask and carrying my mom’s grocery list, I often thought about Lewis’s lines: “Stretch our shadows across the ...

It was written by a former assistant United Nations secretary-general who passed away in 2010 at the age of 87. His words are ...

“Through my high school and early college years, every margin of every notebook was covered with poems or rhymes ... eventually realized in “100% MOM.” Data sources include: “Life ...

But, Cassie Phillips, a 32-year-old mother-of-two ... Cassie Phillips wrote a poem called “Let Them.” “[My] book is not about two words, I built an entire theory citing the work of over ...

I valued it too much to ever use it. I know exactly where it is right now. A book: When I was four years old, my mother bought a small book that contained Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.

As a writer with an Israeli mother and Palestinian father ... that might lead them behind enemy lines. Through my poetry and others’, I invite the thousands who supported a boycott to share ...

My mother read frequently to my sister and me when we were young. She exposed me to poetry, songs, and other forms of literature. I especially loved poetry, so I began to write it at an early age.

When I was ten years old, living in Miami, my mom bought me a journal from Anthropologie. I had owned plenty of journals ...