April 17, 2017Poetry provides the constant opportunity to take a situation and cast it in a different light.
April 14, 2017Let’s take a closer look at the most feared weapon used by the US in the Korean War.
April 14, 2017People have said when they read The Handmaid’s Tale that it could never happen here. But the fact of the matter is it has happened here.
April 12, 2017Read the winning entry in New York City's Youth Poet Laureate contest.
April 11, 2017A poem about survival from Kansas City-based poet and essayist Anne Boyer.
April 10, 2017Tyehimba Jess has just won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry!
April 7, 2017One of the strengths of poetry is that it’s a different kind of language…it can cut directly to meaning making and, yes to emotional truths.
April 6, 2017The door itself makes no promises. It is only a door.
April 5, 2017What I love about poetry is that it is both heartbreakingly intimate and public.
