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I've been writing poetry since I was 7, and these are my top 5 poetry books that have gotten me through hard times ...
Maria Shriver's very first poetry book, 'I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope,' will be released on April 1, 2025. The book is a 'deeply personal' collection of ...
Honoré was so inspired by the historic moment that she eventually rewrote a poem from her 2016 book, Fist & Fire, and posted it to her Instagram account. Before long the touching poem soon went ...
Amanda Gorman responds to the restriction of her poem for President Biden’s inauguration, “The Hill We Climb,” at a Miami Lakes school library: “So they ban my book from young readers ...
Jane Kenyon’s “The Pond at Dusk” is a quiet, mischievous reckoning with nature and mortality. Our critic A.O. Scott plumbs ...
Tom Robert Shields's title poem underscores the message: "I'll plant in you/ a spring-seedling/ with bursting life/ while you are reading./ I am the book/ You are needing." Ages 4–8. (Mar.) ...
Posted: Nov 4, 2021 / 07:52 AM EDT Updated: Nov 4, 2021 / 07:52 AM EDT A North Country teen has turned a poem about the differences in all of us into a book that’s about to hit store shelves.
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with poet and activist Reginald Dwayne Betts and artist Titus Kaphar about their new book, Redaction. The book is based on poems and portraits from redacted lawsuits.
The American writer, who won a Nobel Prize in 2020, wrote with cool clarity and often puckish wit. By Gregory Cowles Gregory Cowles is a senior editor at the Book Review, where he has also been ...