Carroll was only 17 years old when she left her native Co Mayo, an experience she detailed in this unnamed poem she wrote in the 1980s. “She was an amazing woman and had a great life until she ...

Poets Respond to the Music of Taylor Swift edited by Kristie Frederick Daugherty ($26; Ballantine Books; out December 3) Buy ...

Langston Hughes poems guaranteed to move you Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets ...

In 2006, The Poetry Center launched its first annual Poetry Prize for High School Girls in Massachusetts (open to sophomores and juniors); since then, our contest has expanded into the other New ...

Yuka Kanzaki decided to translate poems composed by a woman with cerebral palsy to send ... her feelings reflected in her poems are very strong and came straight to my heart,” Kanzaki said.

Probably no sonnet has ever meant so much to so many people as the one by Emma Lazarus that adorns the Statue of Liberty in ...

MARYLAND – 13-year-old Arianna Shaprow, who is a poet and activist from Las Vegas, wrote a poem celebrating some of the most notable female figures in history including Anne Frank, Mother Teresa, and ...

A hymn to mercy and love, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” springs to my lips when my heart is quiet. I teach it ...

Women’s poetry and songs also reflected the new roles ... munition lassies/Where would the Empire be?” These lyrics show strong self-belief that they were making a difference - which indeed ...

MARTINEZ — A Hayward man was arrested by New York police just minutes after being sentenced to 364 days in jail for taking and burning a woman’s ... Husary read a poem aloud in court the ...

I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit bookshelves on April 1, 2025 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a Jupiter-bound mission helped them find common ground. NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but ...