Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

“I think that, as a community, poetry has also invested in various ... “My Mother was a Freedom Fighter” was inspired by the strong women who came before her who struggled for a better ...

In “Lineage,” she reflects on her strong grandmothers and longs ... the ways we overcome again and again. New to poetry? Start here. These women, these poems sustain me. When people ask ...

"I see a vice president that looks like me." "Brown girl brown girl, what do you know," the poem continues. "That there are strong women who want me to grow." Honoré, whose mother is Mexican and ...

I first read this poem years ago, having never imagined that a person might dip apples into sea salt and vinegar. And years later, I swear, a woman would teach me how tajin turns a green apple ...

Kima Jones, an emerging poet, has developed a strong ... of her poems, one image recurs often: black bodies. "I talk about the black body, first, as my own singular body as a black woman in ...

NASHVILLE — Actress Ashley Judd recited a poem by a Tennessee teen Saturday at the Women's March on Washington. Judd, a Franklin resident, read a poem by 19-year-old Nina Donovan, also of Franklin.