Darius Atefat-Peckham '23 speaks about his journey as a poet and a person with grace, gratitude, and love, exemplifying the ...

Acclaimed American poet Emily Dickinson (1830–1886 ... Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound ...

Acclaimed environmental and climate activist Bill McKibben will be the featured speaker at an October 6 presentation at ...

Do You Speak American? argues that Mexican and other Hispanic migrants are learning English at the same generational rate as previous immigrants groups. By the second generation many can no longer ...

WE’RE ON A JOURNEY THAT TAKES US ACROSS THE USA AND THROUGH THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE. NOW WE’RE GOING TO FIND OUT HOW TODAY’S SOUTHERNERS ANSWER THE QUESTION “DO YOU SPEAK AMERICAN?” ...

Do You Speak American? has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, promoting excellence in the humanities. Additional funding is provided by the William and Flora ...

Poets were there to speak up—and sing—for those who had been silenced and forgotten ... a composition of pilgrimage and spiritual observation which Hirsch describes as very American. “Like our culture ...

free verse poems don't follow any obvious rules. Instead they often follow the rhythms of natural speech. So that's the way that we speak in everyday life with our friends and family.

Here, she explains why she decided to share this poem with Stylist readers as part of the Speak Up initiative. “It is dedicated to every person using their muscle, their voice, their platform ...

Show more It's thought the most popular American poem of all time isn't ... but he also wants the new poem to speak to our moment. Along the way, the bell-bright, rosy cheeked and holly strewn ...

Both of these poets, then (though with quite different inflections), concertedly explore the idea of the American Poem itself as a peculiar icon of American power. As women poets, especially, they ...