Oak Hill High School students and staff have experienced the highs and lows of life recently. On Feb. 5, officials welcomed ...

My introduction to poetry — not counting jump rope rhymes and Valentine sentiments, of course — was in 1945. I was in fifth grade at Lincoln School in Alameda. Our assignment was to memorize the poem ...

Poems are such versatile things. They can be as concise as a well-written line but also long enough to fill an entire book.

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

So begins a poem, titled “The Cowboy,” about a real-life folk hero of sorts: Ben Ellingson, the 5-year-old who helped find ...

Missouri Poet Laureate David Harrison shares how to fill your own sack of ideas and describes what he keeps in his.

Over the centuries, poets have often used ancient Greece as their "muse," resulting in some of the most magnificent poems ever written.

She lets out a sigh and has a good cry, I tell her to release her feelings one at a time,” Cecelia, 30, wrote in a poem that ...

Amna Nawaz spoke with Gorman about how the poem came to be and her new children’s book, “Girls on the Rise.” And before we go, we want to take some time for reflections about how people are ...

Her work inspires courage, resilience, and to be proud of your culture. This legacy makes her poems a rich resource for teaching kids about Black history. Angelou’s poetry, characterized by its unique ...