Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ finding tomorrow ” by m.s. RedCherries. What do you notice about the poem? Note ...

Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ When the Burning Begins ” by Patricia Smith. What do you notice about the poem?

In 2024, the Academy of American Poets invited twelve poets to each curate a month of poems. In this short Q&A, Victor ...

What do you think this title/phrase means: “I have stood up for you?” What questions, if any, do you have about this phrase? ...

Sunset at Luquillo wetlands / Brings the biting flies ...

Born in 1938, Ishmael Reed is the author of many collections of poems and essays, as well as several novels, and he is also well known for his contributions to jazz and blues music, as both a lyricist ...

Transcendental poses are fractured by migration / In Rafael Soriano’s chimeras ...

As if some little Arctic flower” was originally written in 1890 by Emily Dickinson. The poem would later be published in The ...

In the shadows of city lights, we dwelled, untold stories, almas olvidadas, enduring streets where dreams were bought and sold.

A Cry from an Indian Wife” originally appeared in Emily Pauline Johnson’s first volume of poetry, The White Wampum, which was published in 1895 in Boston, London, and Toronto by Lamson, Wolffe and ...

Jesús Papoleto Meléndez is a poet and one of the founders of the Nuyorican movement initiated by poets of Puerto Rican ...

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