Poems by a Little Girl, the work of Hilda Conkling, aged nine, are to be taken seriously, with no apology for the youth of the author. Hilda is as truly a poet as she is the daughter of a true ...

You'll find Elizabeth's poems in anthologies including "What to Read in the Rain" and "Poets Against the War" and in literary journals.

'Brown girl, brown girl' poem celebrates Kamala Harris making history as 1st woman of color vice president "I see a vice president that looks like me," the poem reads.

A poem by an 11th grade girl from a Hasidic family in Crown Heights has gone viral on social media. “Worst Day Ever?” by Chanie Gorkin was first posted last year on the Poetry Nation website ...

Black Girl Magic: Poems written by young black girls Local elementary through high school students from InsideOut write moving poetry ...

A 16-year-old Bronx girl – described as an “intelligent kid” – vanished after an argument about her school attendance, and her frantic mother called cops after finding a poem the teen ...

The bird beats its wings. The girl waits. The sky creaks. says the girl. Laurel Snyder is the author of two books of poems, “Daphne & Jim: a choose-your-own-adventure biography in verse ...

Donald Justice's poems are not interested in making us feel comfortable or special. Yet author Mary Szybist says there is something about them that she finds profoundly consoling.

Bob Kaufman’s “Abomunist Manifesto” (1959) is a joke about political proclamations, and it is one of the funniest poems you’ll ever read. Kaufman’s ridiculous maxims mock the self ...