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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The Shawna E. Shea Memorial Foundation is hosting a "Library Poetry Tour" featuring poet Kris Salvi visiting public libraries in Douglas, Milford and Uxbridge, according to a community announcement.

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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 piece, unveiled during the "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" reception, will sit alongside one of Robert Frost on the WT ...

The University of Chicago Library acquired a 14th-century manuscript of “Le Roman de la Rose,” or “The Romance of the Rose”—which scholars have referred to as the most popular medieval love poem — ...

In “The Serious World,” the latest collection from former Spokane Poet Laureate Laura Read, the poem “Dear Sylvia,” addressed ...