Poetry has mostly been a solitary experience, so it was a real treat for me to join in with the young children.

A version of this story ran in the January / February 2025 issue. Write about the untouchable. Something out of arm’s reach, like freedom, the stars, or you. Write an ode to misfits. A poem of praise ...

In celebration of April as National Poetry Month, the Cedar Rapids Public Library will host a Poetry Power Workshop for third through sixth-graders at the Downtown Library on April 29 from 10 a.m. to ...

“I have a dream.” You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during the 1963 ...

(FOX40.COM) — MOSAIC Children’s Museum will be displaying a poem written by a 13-year-old through February in honor of Black History Month. Arianna Shaprow wrote a poem entitled “The Way It Should Be” ...

if, shaking pearls from your ears, you can know wet boots and windfall. Susan Terris’ new book is “Ghost of Yesterday: New and Selected Poems” (Marsh Hawk Press, 2013). She is the editor of Spillway ...