This Is Our Dream. I dream a world that sounds like a gentle "good morning," like "sleep tight" at the end of the day, like Ella scatting, a world filled with a universal song. A hallelujah of ...

Poetry Challenge: Honor MLK By Describing How You Dream A World 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 ...

For Haki Madhubuti, winning a Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation was a total surprise. A great award, but not necessarily a cherry on the sundae of his literary life. “I feel ...

“I have a dream.” You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during ...

In 2008 she was commissioned to write a series of poems about migration and movement. One of them, “The Dream,” is directly based on her impressions when she first moved to North Carolina.

Gorman's new poem comes more than three years after she became the youngest inaugural poet in the nation's history with her performance at President Biden's 2021 inauguration.

Emperor Naruhito composed a poem about the aspirations of children he has met around Japan for the annual New Year Poetry Reading at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 22.

Marshall James Kavanaugh takes a battered old typewriter to a park and lets people give him a prompt for a poem. They walk away with a piece of art.