Amanda Gorman, the first U.S. national youth poet laureate, recited a new poem at the Democratic National Convention. Her new work focused on themes of democracy and unity to support Vice ...
So I was thinking of doing a unity poem, a "we're all unified" poem. Another, "we all bleed the same" poem. And I realized it's hard to write a unity poem in an ununified nation. I mean, ...
I’d been conditioned to believe that all women should want both of those things and be quietly apologetic if we failed to achieve them. The line was like some of my favorite poems of hers—sham ...
Carroll was only 17 years old when she left her native Co Mayo, an experience she detailed in this unnamed poem she wrote in the 1980s. “She was an amazing woman and had a great life until she ...