Explaining Emmett Till's murder to children in 1955 wasn't easy. Even today, it's still hard to find the right words when teaching young people about Till's brutal death. In 1955, 14-year-old Till was ...

To me, sorrow is the emotion that takes up the most space, weighing down my heart every time it strikes. Poetry is my remedy for it. It helps contain sorrow into a form the page can hold in my stead.

Tears simply weren’t enough for Lee Norris Rayam when he learned how 5-year-old David Votaire’s life was snuffed out two years ago in one fell swoop from his stepfather’s machete. He turned to words, ...

For fear of every morrow, The Pain, the killing, I have seen, Those dreaded fields of sorrow It seems, that every hope has gone, When in men’s eyes I see, A hollowness, once fuelled with power With ...

They are forced to live the lives of the displaced in their own localities and settlements. Their homes are the first to be set on fire in the riots. And are the first to be destroyed by government ...

In “The Sorrow Apartments,” Andrea Cohen’s signature maneuver is a kind of twist that shifts a poem away from the ending that seems to be coming. By David Orr David Orr is the author of a poetry ...

Farai Chideya talks with Marilyn Nelson, poet laureate of Connecticut and author an emotional narrative poem on the death of Emmett Till. Nelson... Explaining Emmett Till's murder to children in 1955 ...