short story writer, musician, activist, member of the Yankton Dakota Sioux and co-founder of the National Council of American ...

It’s one of those classic short poems about life that can change the way you think. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people. One of America’s most famous poets, Langston Hughes was a key ...

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?

For instance, the poem Ok Sim's Life reflects the experience of Ok Sim, focusing on the struggles and triumphs of a woman embodying the characteristics of Jeju's haenyeo lifestyle (female divers).

It's a life-changing event that can leave ... Sonnet to My Mother by George Barker is the type of poem that rolls off the ...

To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown, and how the pandemic has changed their lives.