From an almost whimsical beginning, these verses on wishing to overcome mortality grow lyrical and deeply moving ...

NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander's latest community poem started with a request to consider what follows after the words "I dream a world." 'This Is Our Dream': A Crowdsourced Poem To Inspire ...

In a world of wonders far away. With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by the Sun’s poetry editor, Joseph Bottum of Dakota State University, with the help of ...

As we celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, Morning Edition asks for you to write a poem that starts with the words "I dream a world." When Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his ...

the music behind the glass. Jean Valentine has published 11 books of poetry and is also the editor of “The Lighthouse Keeper: Essays on the Poetry of Eleanor Ross Taylor.” Last month, she won the 2009 ...

Clementine von Radics’ third poetry collection “In a Dream You Saw a Way To Survive” is unimpressive and feels somewhat underdeveloped. Even with some successful emotional moments, the collection is ...

"Origins of the Dream" examines the personal and political intersection of two leading African-American public intellectuals of the mid-20th century, Langston Hughes and Martin Luther King Jr. They ...

Poetry can help us become more human. We saw it on display as 22-year-old inaugural poet Amanda Gorman read her stirring poem "The Hill We Climb" last week. It felt joyous and truthful, necessary and ...