The widely adopted anecdote about the most famous poem of the moment, that it was written by a woman who didn’t want to write it, is not quite accurate. Emma Lazarus’s The New Colossus and its ...

The words of Emma Lazarus’s famous 1883 sonnet ... of America and its source of revitalization. To marshal Lazarus’s poem in support of a redefinition of American greatness, however ...

as expressed by the Emma Lazarus poem that has become synonymous with Lady Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor,” it famously declares, “Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” ...

And yet, as the right is ever-ready to point out, the poem has never reflected America’s actual laws. It was radical even when it was first affixed to the monument: “Emma Lazarus’ poem ...

The year was 1883 when Emma Lazarus, a young, high society New York poet and the descendant of Jewish immigrants, was asked for a favor. Fundraising efforts were underway for a pedestal to hold ...

The poem, written by Emma Lazarus, says: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless ...

Miller: "The poem that you're referring to was added ... CNN’s Jim Acosta invoked Emma Lazarus’s poetic words. “The Statue of Liberty says, ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled ...

This tale features feminist heroes not normally paired: the 19th-century poet Emma Lazarus and the (very alive) avant-garde musician and artist Laurie Anderson. Of Emma Lazarus, most know only ...

These iconic words from "The New Colossus," the 1883 poem written by American Emma Lazarus etched in bronze and mounted on the Statue of Liberty's pedestal, have again been catapulted into a ...

The next year, the book was commercially published as Poems and Translations by Emma Lazarus Written Between the Ages of Fourteen and Seventeen. These measures and others like them kicked off a ...

Lazarus was born on July 22, 1849. This tale features feminist heroes not normally paired: the 19th-century poet Emma Lazarus and the (very alive) avant-garde musician and artist Laurie Anderson.