Fitzpatrick hopes this poem will help people with similar experiences feel recognized. "It lets other women, that the same thing happened to them know that they're being seen," said Fitzpatrick. She ...

As the school year draws to a close, is there a teacher who has inspired you? NPR's poet in residence Kwame Alexander says his mother was his first teacher. He learned from her that "teachers are a ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif.– Former Santa Barbara Poet Laureate Emerita Sojourner Kincaid Rolle receives national recognition for her illustrated children's book "Free at Last: A Juneteenth Poem".

The poem is written from the perspective of a man watching a child dancing “upon the shore” without a care “for wind or water’s roar”. As the child has not yet reached adulthood — having “not yet ...