Poetry is everywhere, says Stefania Gomez, the Education and Youth Services Assistant at Chicago’s Poetry Foundation Library — and she’s on a mission to share that message with young people. “There is ...
“I have a dream.” You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during the 1963 ...
Award-winning teen poet Mckalah Jimenez has been writing poetry since she was nine years old, but it became a lifeline in recent years. When she felt overwhelmed with anxiety, poetry was a release—a ...
Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati met on a blind date. "We share the same agent," explains Burgess. "She said, 'You need to meet this client of mine.'" Over coffee in Brooklyn, they discovered that they ...