Read Part 1: ‘I Am the Bridge’: How a poem being presented at an African cultural event in Arvada was created by 50 people from different ethnicities and cultures In the days leading up to her part in ...

MEDFORD (CBS) - In the days leading up to President Biden's inauguration, Medford Schools Superintendent Dr. Marice Edouard-Vincent felt the tension so many people shared. Would the event take place ...

Read Part 2: With a range of accents, a unity poem years in the making is brought to life through culturally diverse voices “We are the unbreakable woven thread.” “They want red white and blue, but ...

A few days after the presidential election, poet Kim Stafford was driving east from his hometown of Portland, Oregon, when he was struck by a motto on a passing truck filled with Peruvian soft drinks.

Alumnus William “The Poet” Langford (’11, College of Arts and Letters)—a modern-day poet, teaching artist and Fulbright scholar—performed the original work, Pamoja (As One), at the Empower ...

Jeffrey Brown talks with Richard Blanco, the poet chosen to read at President Obama’s second swearing-in, about what it means to be a part of the festivities. Blanco, a Spanish born Cuban-American, is ...

At 17 years old, Vanessa Hunter is Charlotte's inaugural youth poet laureate. A few weeks ago, an email landed in my inbox from Charlotte's inaugural poet laureate, Jay Ward. He said he had been ...