These ideas — and the music of Simone — recur throughout Jones’ debut poetry collection, “Prelude to Bruise.” (Listen to Saeed Jones read “Boy in Whalebone Corset” below).

Like many boys his age, 10-year-old Benjamin Giroux is really into Star Wars, Legos and all things Minecraft."I have a Millennium Falcon about the size of a medium pizza," the fifth-grader said ...

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Do poems have to rhyme? While many of Swift's songs rhyme, it’s not required in poetry. “There are no rules and that’s a good thing, it’s a freeing thing,” Atkins says.

Royce Mann, of Atlanta, wrote and performed the poem “White Boy Privilege” in May, but it’s been blowing up online since the recent shooting deaths in Baton Rouge and Minnesota, as well as ...

Alicia Keys shared a sweet poem reflecting on her 5-year-old son's future amid the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests.. On Instagram, Keys, 39, shared an adorable photo of her son, Genesis Ali ...

Highgate Heights seventh grader’s poem honors Army Pvt. David Evans Jr., who was killed in Iraq in 2003 at age 18: “He fought in a war and he fought for Boy’s poem honors the father he never ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles Ghigna — Father Goose — who lives in Homewood, Alabama. Charles has been a writer for fifty years and loves to “celebrate life ...

Poem, tree in memory of a boy By Matthew Hamilton Updated June 14, 2012 9:03 p.m. West Sand Lake Elementary School students take part in a Flag day celebration in West Sand Lake N.Y. Thursday June ...

Some poetry of this kind is written today, but not much—although Maya Angelou’s lines “You may trod me in the very dust / But still, like dust, I’ll rise” reverberate.

Boy, 12, writes heart-wrenching poem after bullies told him to kill himself because 'being ginger is worse than cancer' Bullies sent anonymous messages to Alfie Coleiro, 12, telling him to kill ...

This poem has been going up at youth fields all across America after Joel McKinnon, a youth coach in Ohio, found it on Facebook last year. He posted it to his webpage, and then his company, Farmer ...