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NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander's latest community poem started with a request to consider what follows after the words "I dream a world." 'This Is Our Dream': A Crowdsourced Poem To Inspire ...
“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 the 1963 ...
When Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech 58 years ago, he changed the course of history with his aspiration. In the poem, there's hope in the chaos, and it attends to the ...
Georgia Douglas Johnson was born in Atlanta on Sept. 10, 1880. Her collections of poetry include "The Heart of a Woman" (Cornhill Company, 1918) and "Share My World" (Halfway House, 1962). She died in ...
What holds a country together? What deepens a culture rooted in memory? What traditions give life and meaning to a people? Where do dreams come from that move a people forward? Memories stored in mind ...
The Poetry Society's Julia Bird created a poem from a collection of lines by 20 young poets Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival runs from 9-11 March 2018, with Radio 3 broadcasting live from Sage ...
They answered him, “We each had a dream, but there is no one to interpret it.” So Joseph said to them, “Surely interpretations belong to God! Please tell me your dreams.” ~ Genesis 40:8 I wanted to ...
According to one scholar, it has been called the “greatest Christian poem written in English.” That’s a debatable call but a position that one would well argue. It is certainly one of the oldest poems ...
Poetry can help us become more human. We saw it on display as 22-year-old inaugural poet Amanda Gorman read her stirring poem "The Hill We Climb" last week. It felt joyous and truthful, necessary and ...
Poetry can help us become more human. We saw it on display as 22-year-old inaugural poet Amanda Gorman read her stirring poem "The Hill We Climb" last week. It felt joyous and truthful, necessary and ...