She confides that her first poem was oral. “I asked my mom: ‘What will I be ... And you’re right, because the words are ...

I can’t say I was a bad student in high school, just not interested. Any subject other than my Ag class was an inconvenience ...

Her poem, which had a flow to it and wasn’t written with a strict structure, was extremely different from Breeze’s metered poem “Chosen Moms,” which highlighted how a chosen family can be just ... I ...

For more than six decades, the poet Rumi has inspired me psychologically, spiritually, and transformatively. Here is why we ...

Many poems in Black Girl, Call Home focus on Mans’ mother ... I inherited a sense of music, style, and food. My family is ...

Summer Awad speaks to her own experience as a Palestinian-Southern person in her poem “The South speaks her mind,” and ... I ...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations calls for an investigation into an anti-Palestinian incident that occurred at a ...

The writer, who grew up in a single-parent family on a southwest London council estate, started creating poetry himself in sixth form after the Jamaican ‘dub poet’ Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze came to his ...

Typewriter on-demand poetry has become a cherished event for all the poets involved. I love how the event keeps growing as ...

Huron said he had found an old poem in a drawer and transferred it to ... Huron remains humble in his accomplishment with ...

Shiraishi shot to fame when she was just 20, freshly graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo, with her “Tamago no Furu ...