This week my dear friend, Penny, sent me a powerful poem, read beautifully by an older woman, my age or older I presume, on Instagram. Titled “Let Them,” it spoke directly to my heart in a ...

Silence the inner critic, says New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp, who recommends writing for yourself, without judgment.

Essentially a declaration of his refusal to let this handicap ruin his life, the full poem says in bold words that you, and only you, are in charge of your destiny. RD.com, Getty Images 27.

With relatable lines such as,”If they are showing you who they are and not what you perceived them to be, LET THEM,” the poem took off, and, according to Phillips, was shared more than 50,000 ...

The poem itself could be an entry. The speaker, ... Then let us hurry, comrades, The road to find. Langston Hughes (1901–67) was a poetic innovator and a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance.

These poems about friendship are sweet, relatable and heartfelt ways to say "I love you." ... Let neither lose his faith, lest by such loss Each find insufferable his daily cross.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to poet in residence Kwame Alexander, who shares his latest community crowd-sourced poem about the goals that teachers, parents and students have set for themselves.

This week my dear friend, Penny, sent me a powerful poem, read beautifully by an older woman, my age or older I presume, on Instagram. Titled “Let Them,” it spoke directly to my heart in a ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Lauren Camp, who lives in Sante Fe and is the New Mexico Poet Laureate. Lauren worked as a magazine editor for 12 years. She wrote wall text to ...