I do feel displaced being a mixed-race person growing up in America who did not have access to the languages my mom spoke,” said poet Dani Putney. “My dad forbade her from teaching my brother and ...

In honoring National Poetry Month, Loyola staff and students reckon with the benefits and conflicts of poetry reading in ...

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"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

New additions are indicated with an asterisk. The selection of family films on Amazon Prime’s streaming service leaves a little something to be desired, but that just makes a guide like this ...

Channer’s reading is a celebration of National Poetry ... family activities, as well as representatives from: URI Master Gardeners will be available to respond to gardening questions. Visit ...

So bring some literary festivity to your handwritten Christmas cards, or add another fun activity to your family’s Christmas traditions, by reading these poems together over hot cocoa by the fire.

A group or individual poem about your family, an aspect of your family or why they are important to you You can submit a poem in written form or as an audio or video clip that is one-minute or less. A ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: maybe because it came as an unexpected gift from a friend or loved one, or in ...

The book she could not finish, for example, is War and Peace ... The most interesting answer arrived under the heading, “The poetry that saved me”. Maya Angelou’s wonderfully inspiring ...