In this charming yet sobering lyric, Jericho Brown confronts his own image as a black man — what those on the outside imagine they see, and what he can’t help carrying inside, locked from view ...

POEM : Above the Bright Blue Sky ... There’s a Friend for little childrenAbove the bright blue sky,A Friend who never changes Whose love will never die;Our earthly friends may fail us,And change with ...

In his plays, Shakespeare created complex characters navigating universal issues. He additionally invented the Shakespearean sonnet, a 14-line classic poem form with a set structure and rhyme pattern.

Dec. 21 is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Susan Cooper, who wrote the solstice poem "The Shortest Day," collaborated with illustrator Carson Ellis on a new picture book.

A poem by DeCillis landed on the moon recently as part of a digitized archive carried by Blue Ghost Mission 1, which launched in January and reached the lunar surface in early March.