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From NewsHour Poetry SeriesFrank Espada was a man of many vocations: artist, photographer, community organizer, civil rights activist and father. As a Puerto Rican immigrant in 1960s America, he saw and documented first hand the social turbulence of the era.
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Reginald Dwayne Betts grew up an honor student with hopes for college, but went to prison at 16 for carjacking, his first run-in with the law. Reading, and poetry in particular, became a comfort and gave him a new identity.
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Free Write Jail Arts and Literacy aims to help troubled youths in Chicago’s Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center address their personal issues by writing poetry about their circumstances and upbringing.
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"Voyage of the Sable Venus," the first collection from Robin Coste Lewis, is the winner of this year's National Book Award for poetry.
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Seventy years ago this spring, Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps and exposed some of the worst horrors of World War II. "Liberation," a poetry collection released last month, highlights why the ideas of oppression and liberation are sti
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This year, Bill Murray traded comedic one-liners for lines of poetry at a yearly benefit for Poets House, a nonprofit library and cultural center in New York City.
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For MacArthur fellow Ellen Bryant Voigt, nature has always served as an inspiration for her poetry.
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It’s one of the most famous poems in American history. But David Orr, poetry columnist for The New York Times, says “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is widely misinterpreted. Jeffrey Brown interviews Orr.
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When Omar Perez was 25, he found out his father was the revolutionary Che Guevara. For Perez -- a poet, artist and musician -- the revelation didn’t much change his outlook on life, or on Cuba.
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Juan Felipe Herrera is the son of migrant workers from Mexico, and becomes the first Latino to serve as poet laureate of the United States.
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