I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

The greatest casualty of our education system? Poetry. Either you’re from an older generation and you know a few lines by ...

When the morning sun rises high, And the world wakes up with a new light, We remember the freedom we’ve won, And the dreams we reach with all our might. The land we cherish, free and bright, Is a gift ...

Brad Leithauser likes to look for poetry in graveyards. A novelist and poet himself, there's something he values greatly in tombstone epitaphs: brevity. "You really don't want to go on at great length ...

Hanif Abduraqqib. Sarah Kay. Elizabeth Acevedo. Clint Smith. Do any of these names sound familiar? How about Amanda Gorman? All of these writers are part of America’s thriving contemporary poetry ...