In a week that brought us the mass murder at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, the murder of British politician Jo Cox, and the death of a little boy who died after an alligator attack, it certainly seems ...

When I was diagnosed with stage 1A cervical cancer, I realized that life is short and I want to spend my time being the best version of myself. To be able to enjoy my life as a cancer survivor…more ...

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 ...

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 ...

Poet Kwame Alexander has created a poem from submissions about the challenges of the past year and our dreams for the future. It ends with: "For... 'I Wake With Wonder': A Crowdsourced Poem Of ...

It was a rough evening outside but a warm feeling within. Lynn and I were with fellows and gals passing out food outside a closed church in Norfolk’s Park Place. The rain came down but the smiles ...

I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

Charlotte Smith was born in 1749 in London. She published both novels and poetry collections, including "Elegiac Sonnets" (J. Dodley, H. Gardner, and J. Bew, 1786), "Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle ...

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 ...