The Aurora Public Library is facing criticism for displaying and subsequently removing a poem some have labeled as hate speech that condones violence against Muslim women. The poem, "Hijab Means Jihad ...

Perhaps the most visibly upset person this week about the controversy surrounding a poem displayed at the downtown Aurora Public Library is the person whose name is above the front door. Gina Santori ...

I read the poem. And I do see the satire artist George Miller, a professor at Lewis University, was aiming for in the display at the Aurora Public Library that has garnered so much controversy since ...

In March, a parent of students at the Bob Graham Education Center, a school in Florida’s Miami-Dade County, filed a complaint about "The Hill We Climb," a poem written by Amanda Gorman and read at ...

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that he “had nothing to do with” a poem recently being moved from an elementary school library to a middle school library. “This is some book of poems. I never ...

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The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum has obtained the original version of the poem that Robert Frost prepared for the inauguration of John F. Kennedy, but never read in its entirety because of the ...

Arthur Sze, the national poet laureate appointed by the Library of Congress last month, visited Queens College, in Flushing, ...

April is National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate the literary genre that gives us answers to questions we don’t know how to ask, creates connection and wisdom, shows us the beauty and rhythm of ...

April is National Poetry Month, and the Free Library of Philadelphia is offering a variety of events and programs to honor the power of poetry. Launched in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, this ...

The poem “The Hill We Cimb,” written by Amanda Gorman and read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021, was challenged in March by a parent at a South Florida school, resulting in the school ...