The poem in this Hint I have offered before for the same reason, a gift for Christmas. But I believe it is definitely worth repeating. Christmas is a time that symbolizes hope. It is a religious ...

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to poet in residence Kwame Alexander, who shares his latest community crowd-sourced poem about the goals that teachers, parents and students have set for themselves. Back for ...

Explaining Emmett Till's murder to children in 1955 wasn't easy. Even today, it's still hard to find the right words when teaching young people about Till's brutal death. In 1955, 14-year-old Till was ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Another death. Another funeral. Another friend taken too early by that cruel, smarmy bastard – ...

There’s no question: The pandemic and the nation’s racial reckoning has weighed heavily on students. Much has been written about how they’re struggling. But they’re also finding ways to cope with the ...

in the back of the band: barely there, but beautiful as chimes trembling in a breeze. We quiver, as when finger tips stroke our necks. mourning, writhing, tender as peace. Same damn song, whatever we ...

Among the shelves of the Historic Society of Pennsylvania’s research library, a poetry scholar appears to have discovered a quintessential piece of Boston history. Written in one of its many books is ...

Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901, born ...

Poet and activist Amanda Gorman recited a new poem at the Democratic National Convention, where she echoed Barack Obama's popular line "the audacity of hope" when she described the American dream. Aug ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. After my colleague Julie shared the poems that have helped her and some ...

The former president wrote of his enduring love for his wife of several decades in a recently resurfaced 1995 poem titled "Rosalynn" Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been ...