Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get in the way of meaning.

Thirteen-year-old writer Ariana Shaprow is displaying her poem “The Way It Should Be” at the Mosaic Children’s Museum in Woodland, California, celebrating the accomplishments of ...

"The Way It Should Be," which celebrates the accomplishments of her ancestors and prominent figures in the Black community, ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...