WHYY’s Jennifer Lynn and Susan Phillips explore the beauty of nature through poetry, featuring iconic poets like Amanda Gorman, Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg.

Today we’ll find out about the national youth poet ... the eighth person to hold the title. The first was Amanda Gorman, who read a poem she had written at Joseph Biden’s inauguration in ...

Desola Awosika and Penelope Alvarez-Santiago, both fifth graders at Waugh Chapel Elementary School in Odenton, took second place with, “Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem” by Amanda Gorman.

From Amanda Gorman to Stacey Abrams, the L.A. Times Festival of Books promises to be the greatest gathering of book lovers ...

But it’s when discussion of the American Dream gets closer to home that her West Virginia students light up. “One thing ...

“We’re introduced to it through nursery rhymes and folklore and whimsy, and then all of that is removed and looked down on when we get into middle school ... said poetry has the power to affect change ...

If it’s one thing about Black folks, we know how to party! Another thing: While African American history and culture is ...

Greyson Herbert, a fifth-grader from Severn Elementary School ... Gorman’s modern works, including her 2021 inaugural poem, offered fresh relevance. Herbert’s original monologue stood out ...

Make sure to read the entirety of the poem with your little ones to get them ready for Santa’s arrival! An’ laughin’; she knows dat her pa owe no debt. In his 1912 poem “Out of Debt ...

If you need another reason to pull out your best dashiki ... The holiday celebrates the likes of James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni, Amanda Gorman and Paul Laurence Dunbar. According to the Daily ...