Paisley Rekdal is the author of six volumes of poetry, most recently Nightingale (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). An inaugural Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, Rekdal is the Guest Editor for ...

When I began to listen to poetry, it’s when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all ...

of traffic, all that is grounded or down. A flight of leaf-blown cursives, blue coats to the city where I am mostly old and their song, under the noise of hours, is done. But now, auto exhaust ...

James Cervantes is the author of several poetry collections, including From Mr. Bondo’s Unshared Life (Hamilton Stone Editions, 2013) and Temporary Meaning (Hamilton Stone Editions, 2006), which was ...

Bertrand N. O. Walker, who published his poems under his Wyandot name, Hen-toh, was born in 1870.

Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ Let America Be America Again ” by Langston Hughes. What do you notice about the ...

Listening to the Poem: Enlist two volunteers and listen as the poem is read aloud twice. Write down any additional words and ...

Warm-up: (free-write) What does this time of year make you think about? Why? What images or ideas come to mind? Why? Share your writing with a classmate or small group. Reading the Poem: Silently read ...

Tanaya Winder is an author, a singer, and a motivational speaker from an intertribal lineage of Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute, and Duckwater Shoshone Nations, where she is an enrolled citizen. We ...

Hamza Mohamed is an eighth-grade writer from Minneapolis. He is a member of 826 MSP’s After-School Writing Lab and Young ...

Since when / was the breach / and what broke, a door ...

“Were you to visit the new farm machinery display at a county fair in rural America, it’s possible that you might see what I have seen: a farmer missing a hand or an arm, assessing the same kind of ...