A teenager's poem titled "White Boy Privilege" is going viral following last week's racial unrest that saw the police shooting deaths of two black men and five Dallas officers getting gunned down.

Kelsey Parker, podcast host and widow of late The Wanted member Tom Parker, has announced that she lost the baby she was ...

The authors of two new poetry collections aspire to reach broad audiences with their work. First, John Himmelman says he wanted to tell stories with as few words as possible. The Boy Who Lived in ...

Alicia Keys pens touching poem to her 5-year-old son: 'My beautiful baby boy⁣ you are unstoppable' She shared the poem alongside two photos of her young son.

Born in Chicago and raised in Alabama, WJ Lofton’s creative work breathes life into the intricacies of identity, race, grief, ...

Kevin Young first wrote his story about Emile, a boy in love with a field, as a bedtime poem for his son years ago. Now, it lives on as a picture book with watercolor illustrations by Chioma Ebinama.

Benjamin Giroux's goal when writing his poem was to have society understand that being odd is different, and different is a good thing.

Why this 11-year-old wrote a poem to address racism and police brutality Josiah Wheeler wrote "My Skin's Not a Weapon" after the death of George Floyd.

Danez Smith’s “Bluff” represents a notable turning point for the poet — and maybe for American poetry as a whole.

WEST SAND LAKE — Betty Murphy's West Sand Lake Elementary first-grade class stood in a row before their schoolmates Thursday afternoon, ready to recite by memory the 32-line poem they wrote ...

Royce Mann, an eighth-grader at the Paideia School in Atlanta, has stirred up a lot of discussion after video of him performing a poem titled “White-Boy Privilege” at a slam-poetry competition ...

“He’s Just a Little Boy” is a decades old poem recounting a young boy at the plate, swinging and missing with the bases loaded, and the crowd starts riding him for his failure.