The Creative Zone is a showcase of artwork, poetry, short stories and other creative work by elementary and middle school students. The following poems were written for the School Board’s 200… ...

Hip hop, journalist and rhyme are all different concepts. But for Mumbai-based rapper, A-List a.k.a Ashwini Mishra, this combination is a way of bringing news s ...

See all clips from Rhythm, Rap and Rhyme (6) More clips from Let's Write Poetry: The Big Slam Using artefacts and ornaments as inspiration for poems — Memories ...

1. "Freedom in America" by Joanna FuchsFreedom in AmericaIsn't really free;We often pay a priceTo keep our liberty.Remember those we loved,Who fought for us, and died;And those we never knewFor ...

The Anthology of Rap sets out to capture the evolution of rap lyrics through what its editors consider representative examples, collecting the work of a wide variety of MCs who recorded from 1979 ...

You could barely escape poetry back in the day. Newspapers commissioned bits of doggerel to print between columns. The N.A.A.C.P.’s doughty house organ and beacon to Black America, “The Crisis ...

Against a tide of weariness, I have two pieces of advice on this Earth Day, embedded in National Poetry Month: start a garden, and read or write a poem, writes Tess Taylor.

For a poem that's short, simple, and gets immediately to the point, this one is for you. I am glad you're my father;You're really the best;As a dad, you're a fine one;I'm so very blessed.You're ...

Vedan means hunter in Malayalam. Recall that Valmiki, the author of the Ramayan once referred to as Ratnakara, was also a hunter. In Kerala, where just about every other person you run into is ...

In keeping with my technical theme, both poems are rich in like sounds, certainly richer than many a merely competent poem in end rhyme. For example, in the first couple of sentences in Frost's ...