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 ...

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.

Since 1996, April has been National Poetry month. The idea is to draw our attention - to remind us - of the art of poetry. To celebrate National Poetry… ...

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.

The binder for his 9/11 poem, "Out of the Blue," brims with details that made their way into the finished product, 110 lines of emotion and imagery that the audience for "Bridging Art" will hear ...