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7:19

Amanda Gorman

Using your voice is a political choice

Posted Apr 2019

2:28

Tim Seibles

"First Kiss"

Posted Apr 2019

4:28

Iseult Gillespie

Why should you read Sylvia Plath?

Posted Mar 2019

11:54

Aja Monet and phillip agnew

A love story about the power of art as organizing

Posted Feb 2019

15:17

Julián Delgado Lopera

The poetry of everyday speech

Posted Feb 2019

4:26

Iseult Gillespie

Why should you read "A Midsummer Night's Dream?"

Posted Dec 2018

6:23

Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes

"Chasms"

Posted Sep 2018

5:28

Muslim Sahib

"The Coming Out Beauty" / "419 sq ft"

Posted Sep 2018

4:36

Sunni Patterson

"Wild Women"

Posted Aug 2018

8:21

Laura Caccia

The avant-garde frontier of code poetry

Posted Jul 2018

12:45

Felice Belle and Jennifer Murphy

How we became sisters

Posted Mar 2018

4:57

IN-Q

A poet's plea to save our planet

Posted Feb 2018

7:11

Ise Lyfe

We are not mud

Posted Feb 2018

7:49

Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

Black life at the intersection of birth and death

Posted Feb 2018

11:00

Cleo Wade

Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care

Posted Jan 2018

20:15

David Whyte

A lyrical bridge between past, present and future

Posted Aug 2017

16:09

Lucy Kalanithi

What makes life worth living in the face of death

Posted May 2017

16:40

Jorge Drexler

Poetry, music and identity

Posted May 2017

10:51

Emtithal Mahmoud

A young poet tells the story of Darfur

Posted Mar 2017

13:22

Jude Kelly

Why women should tell the stories of humanity

Posted Mar 2017

3:57

Chinaka Hodge

What will you tell your daughters about 2016?

Posted Dec 2016

17:07

Tiq Milan and Kim Katrin Milan

A queer vision of love and marriage

Posted Dec 2016

10:56

Oscar Schwartz

Can a computer write poetry?

Posted Jan 2016

11:57

Robin Morgan

4 powerful poems about Parkinson's and growing older

Posted Sep 2015

5:39

eL Seed

Street art with a message of hope and peace

Posted Jul 2015

4:21

Lee Mokobe

A powerful poem about what it feels like to be transgender

Posted Jun 2015

5:12

Clint Smith

How to raise a Black son in America

Posted Apr 2015

13:58

Harry Baker

A love poem for lonely prime numbers

Posted Mar 2015

12:37

Cristina Domenech

Poetry that frees the soul

Posted Jan 2015

12:56

Harry Baker

The power of self-acceptance

Posted Nov 2014

4:18

Clint Smith

The danger of silence

Posted Aug 2014

4:02

Billy Collins

Two poems about what dogs think (probably)

Posted Jun 2014

13:12

Stephen Burt

Why people need poetry

Posted Jun 2014

14:12

Suzanne Talhouk

Don't kill your language

Posted Jan 2014

3:00

Malcolm London

"High School Training Ground"

Posted May 2013

12:03

Shane Koyczan

To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful

Posted Mar 2013