This short poem was collected by Mary Austin, an early-20th-century American poet of the modernist movement. Although she was not Native American, she worked to preserve and publish Native ...

The Best American Poetry compiles roughly 75 poems every year, and prints under each one its provenance: the magazine where it first appeared. (Other volumes, like Best American Short Stories ...

This poem captures the depth of the African American experience, tracing it back to the earliest civilizations, and highlighting a sense of pride and endurance. 2. “I, Too” (1926) ...

The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them Stephen Burt. Belknap, $27.95 (410p) ISBN 978-0-674-73787-7 ...

These poems by Latin American women reflect a multilingual region Sandra Guzmán once heard an alarming statistic: Every 14 days, an Indigenous language dies around the world. So she created a new ...

Books: American Religious Poems. Published Oct 05, 2006 at 8:00 PM EDT Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 6:00 PM EST. By David Gates . Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member. FOLLOW. news article.

I could go on with more examples. My list is ready — I am only waiting for the president to give me the go-ahead. Perhaps twenty other experienced readers of poetry might come up with twenty other ...

Egyptian-American Poet: Bodies Are Like Poems As part of Tell Me More's series for National Poetry Month, ... Now, remember, these are short, only 140 characters each.