For National Poetry Month, which takes place in April, here are five tips to help ... I think most of us do get," says Mullen. "We are left with something." Whatever that "something" is ...

“In my poem, I’m not going to in any way gloss over what we’ve seen over the past few weeks and, dare I say, the past few years. But what I really aspire to do in the poem is to be able to ...

What we’ve seen isn’t just the power of a poem. It’s the power of the people. And yes, I still am terrified every day. Yet fear can be love trying its best in the dark. So do not fear your fear.

Rote learning can be seen as mindless, drone-like, something done without really thinking about why we’re doing it and ... s “The Raven.” Here are two lines from that poem: And the silken ...

But forget his letter now - the letter is a distraction. It’s poetry we’re addressing here. Ask yourself what the hell I’m doing reading poems. Good question. Well, it’s because poets ...

As the poem continues, and the speaker's uncle rages about his cousin's date with a white man, we come across a surprising line: "I let him feed me/the anger I knew was a birthright,/a plate of ...