Pulitzer Prize-winning Rita Dove reads her poem "American Smooth." The arts play an instrumental role in young people's lives. Pursuing creative endeavors helps young people in social, intellectual, ...

When Peter Kahn became an English teacher at the Chicago-area Oak Park and River Forest High School, he was terrified of teaching poetry. "Poetry was my least favorite subject as a student, and my ...

Sandra Martin, a petite mother of four, earnestly asks total strangers if they're willing to listen as she delivers one of her spoken-word poems live. Her audiences? Usually, they're shoppers pushing ...

It wouldn't be fair to describe Beyoncé's Lemonade as just another Beyoncé album — because it's not. The visual aspects of Lemonade, the cinematic mastery that runs through it, the tightly-packed, ...

Never heard of World Poetry Day? It’s pretty official, having been adopted by no less than UNESCO in 1999. One of the objectives is “to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to ...

In middle school, when I was a scrawny girl with big thighs and a bigger butt, I was buoyed through three years of not being asked to dance by the phrase, "Real women have curves." Did I really have ...

Poetry is more than an art form. It is a lineage of healing. Our communities have long used rhythm, story, and verse to transform pain into wisdom. In every language and every tradition, we have ...