Aimee Suzara is a Filipina American poet, playwright, performer, and educator whose mission is to create poetic and theatrical work about race, gender, and the body to provoke dialogue and social ...

Who hasn’t given up their seat to a man who says he can’t stand to sit with his back to the door. Who hasn’t waited, preoccupied with the ...

The following activities and questions are designed to help your students use their noticing skills to move through the poem ...

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The following activities and questions are designed to help your students use their noticing skills to move through the poem and develop their thinking skills so they understand its meaning with ...

The Palace Gallery is excited to announce it will host a free poetry reading on May 18, from 4 - 6 p.m. PT, for I Sing the Salmon Home: Poems from Washington State (Empty Bowl Press, 2023). For this ...

William Butler Yeats, widely considered one of the greatest poets of the English language, received the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature. His work was greatly influenced by the heritage and politics of ...

A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon, The dinosaur, who left dried tokens Of their sojourn here On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their hastening ...

Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!" he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six ...

The Oracle, in their time-stained insight expelled you. Even though your offerings were true guitar strings crushed marigold petals blood (a few drops) on handmade paper tī leaves dried to pale dross ...

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston. Poe’s father and mother, both professional actors, died before the poet was three years old, and John and Frances Allan raised him as a foster ...

William Shakespeare, regarded as the foremost dramatist of his time, wrote more than thirty plays and more than one hundred sonnets, all written in the form of three quatrains and a couplet that is ...