My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heidi Mordhorst, who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland — a short bike ride from Washington, D.C. Heidi began writing poems early in childhood and favors ...

Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Julia Schroers, a 14-year-old student from Guilford, CT. You ...

Reginald Betts was in solitary confinement at 17 when a book changed his life. His nonprofit now installs libraries in ...

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Poetry is my freedom song and I celebrate it,” declares Rajathi Samsudeen, popularly known by her pen name Salma, who wrote ...

It’s YOUR decision. Very few can do what they like, completely unrestricted. Every year we celebrate Passover to remind us of our freedom — freedom from the Egyptians and their endlessly torturing ...

Editor’s note: Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson, the 2020-2023 poet laureate of San Antonio, delivered her poem “Freedom Mindset” at the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Juneteenth Celebration on Thursday ...

…and He will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and the Lord will pass over the entrance, and He will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses to smite [you] -Exodus 12:23 Step ...

Kristen Stewart has been showcasing her passion for performing since she was just 9 years old, and now at 23, she’s unveiling her penchant for poetry. “I like being able to hit on something, like, ...

Amanda Gorman, who read her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the 2021 presidential inauguration, said one parent's complaint about a book shouldn't result in it being inaccessible to others. Gorman told ...