Her work inspires courage, resilience, and to be proud of your culture. This legacy makes her poems a rich resource for teaching kids about Black history. Angelou’s poetry, characterized by its ...

Black History Month traces back to 1915, half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. In that pivotal year, Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland founded ...

Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you feel like laughing.

Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...

To mark World Poetry Day, we’ve collected the stories behind six poems beloved throughout the world and which are well worth investigating for yourself. “You may write me down in history ...