The Aurora Public Library is facing criticism for displaying and subsequently removing a poem some have labeled as hate speech that condones violence against Muslim women. The poem, "Hijab Means Jihad ...

In March, a parent of students at the Bob Graham Education Center, a school in Florida’s Miami-Dade County, filed a complaint about "The Hill We Climb," a poem written by Amanda Gorman and read at ...

BOSTON – The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum has obtained the original version of the poem that Robert Frost prepared for the inauguration of John F. Kennedy, but never read in its entirety because ...

LORAIN, Ohio — Lorain Public Library System is calling on local wordsmiths to pick up their pens for the Toni Morrison Poetry Contest. The contest is open to Lorain County students in grades 6-12 and ...

Old Forge Library will host a reception March 12 for its Community Poetry and Art Contest, announcing winners from Herkimer, Oneida and Madison counties.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that he “had nothing to do with” a poem recently being moved from an elementary school library to a middle school library. “This is some book of poems. I never ...

The poet starts a new series, picking poems from her shelves to comfort and inspire us in isolation. Here she introduces a work that celebrates the sounds and smells of libraries Over the coming weeks ...

John Hegley, Daljt Nagra and others pay tribute to a treasured resource The Poetry Library I am descended from another clime yet you have made me. I pray you care for one who streams his lines through ...

The poem “The Hill We Cimb,” written by Amanda Gorman and read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021, was challenged in March by a parent at a South Florida school, resulting in the school ...