I instructed students to focus their found poems on the severity of gun violence in D.C. and to give their poems a title that captures the main idea of their unique compositions. The results made ...

Han, 53, began her career with a group of poems in a ... But Han’s “intense, lyrical” writing almost acts as consolation in the face of this historical violence, Palm added.

Now she writes poems to honor victims of gang violence. She began to write, channeling her emotions into verses that pay tribute to the suffering of a community in Chicago that has been plagued by ...