Esther Grace Simmons is making the world a better place, one poem at a time. She often turns her poems into songs. "Teens Try to Prevent Crime in America" is one of those songs, and it currently is ...
How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, edited by James Crews, Storey Publishing, 208 pages. $14.95. Credit: Courtesy This January, Amanda Gorman’s reading at the presidential inauguration ...
In verse 8 of her lengthy poem “Dark Testament,” Pauli Murray captures the essence of a hope that refuses to be silenced, a hope that persists even in the face of adversity: Hope is a song in a weary ...
In 1789, William Blake (1757–1827) published his “Songs of Innocence,” and five years later, in 1794, he produced his “Songs of Experience” — binding them both together as “Songs of Innocence and of ...
Every Thursday this year we're celebrating All Songs Considered's 15th birthday with personal memories and highlights from the show's decade and a half online and on the air. If you have a story about ...
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