Burlingame poet Mia Ayumi Malhotra decided that if she was going to write a book on motherhood, it should go beyond skimming ...

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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former U.S. poet laureate, Joy Harjo, about her book "Washing My Mother's Body" where she explores the complexity of a daughter's grief as she reflects on her mother's ...

Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a South Side house full of books and was a poet from an early age, eventually becoming the first ...

For all they do for us, mothers should be celebrated every day — but it’s still nice to give mom a little extra love on Mother’s Day. She deserves it! And whether you’re taking her out to ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

“A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” the first major solo exhibition of Johnson’s work that opened April 18, does something similar, as the Guggenheim spotlights his multidisciplinary practice over ...

He portrays Revere at his historic home and has been a fan of Longfellow’s ballad since he was a kid. His mother read the poem to him before bedtime during the bicentennial, “and despite ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. To Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—and contrary to ...

On the eve of our nineteenth year, the sky cracked, its molten innards sloshing to and fro, its boiling yolk slipped out as our lips cried for home. “Stand, stand, stand,” said the boy. “If ...