“It is English, I promise,” English Ph.D. student Jon Quick joked before beginning to recite at Stanford’s Poetry Out Loud competition Tuesday evening. Then, for the next four minutes, an audience of ...
The words were written by a white man from England some 400 years ago, but their message clicked with an African-American boy from a public school in Jersey City and a Asian Indian girl from a private ...
NEW YORK (CBS) A World War II-era poem by a British cryptologist was given new life this weekend when it was read at Chelsea Clinton's wedding. "The Life That I Have" by Leo Marks was recited during ...
"The Hill We Climb," a now-famous poem written and recited by Gorman at Biden's 2020 inauguration, is among four works that were singled out by a parent who complained that they sent "indirect hate ...
"When your eulogy is being read with your life's actions to rehash, would you be proud of the things they say about how you spent your dash?" asks Linda Ellis' poem "The Dash," which was read at ...
Updated May 25, 2023 at 10:41 AM ET Amanda Gorman's poetry has heralded a presidential inauguration and a U.N. General Assembly — but access to it is now restricted at a Miami-Dade County school, the ...