Gorman cautions parents to be awake to the rise in book bans across the country, which will primarily impact children of middle and low-income families.

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

The Chicago-based band Dehd released their fifth album “Poetry” last year. Listen for more about their discography and history. [music] KATE POLLOT: This year, Chicago-based band Dehd celebrates its ...

Amanda Gorman made her voice heard in January 2021 while reading the poem for President Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

As a young girl, Gina Belafonte used to put her ear up against a door in her home so she could hear her father and his friends discuss important matters. Issues like civil rights, protests and racism.

Thirteen-year-old writer Ariana Shaprow is displaying her poem “The Way It Should Be” at the Mosaic Children’s Museum in Woodland, California, celebrating the accomplishments of ...

I Dream of Joni” by Henry Alford and “Song So Wild and Blue” by Paul Lisicky are wonderful reminders of Joni Mitchell’s ...

The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

Poet, playwright, novelist, and social activist Langston Hughes and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shared a ...

In one of his timeless and memorable poems, Langston Hughes, author and poet of The Harlem Renaissance, asked the question: ...