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The 2021 National Youth Poet Laureate, 24, used her platform to call out gun violence in America, posing a poignant question about the future of children's safety in schools. Schools scared to ...
On a small table adjacent to a red couch, Doris Hernandez keeps the last photo of her late son amid dozens of crosses, a rosary and a Bible with worn pages bearing the weight of countless prayers.
The collection is made up of five sections: a preface by Reni Eddo-Lodge, an introduction by Sara Ahmed, 13 essays, 17 poems, and a Note on the Text. As the Note on the Text states, many of the essays in the collection were given as papers at conferences across the U.S. The essays were all previously published in Lorde's 1984 book Sister ...
Bing Xin was one of the first writers to use the short poem structure in a poetry book and she was inspired by Rabindranath Tagore's work Stray Birds.She acknowledged his influence over her writing style in her introductory essay, "How I Wrote A Maze of Stars and Spring Water" originally published in Shi Kan in 1954 and reprinted in 1982.
"Advice to Youth" is a satirical essay written by Mark Twain in 1882. Twain was asked by persons unspecified to write something "to [the] youth." [1] While the exact audience of his speech is uncertain, it is most probably American; in his posthumous collected works, editor's notes have conjecturally assigned the address to the Boston Saturday Morning Club. [2]
Black youth disproportionately impacted by violence At Christ Church Apostolic on the north side of Indianapolis in the 90s, Marshawn Wolley remembers the pastor praying over him and other young ...
Her essays, poems, short essays, and book chapters have been published worldwide. They have been short-listed for honors, such as the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards. Her poetry has been part of the Poetry In Motion program of the Poetry Society of American, and has been delivered and displayed at the United Nations in New York City as ...
The red Prada headband she donned at the inauguration of President Joe Biden sold out within seconds of its debut. Honored as the first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, the 22-year-old ...