Amanda Gorman, who famously recited a moving poem at the 2021 presidential inauguration, has just released a new work to mark the ringing in of the new year. On Wednesday, Instagram debuted Gorman ...

On New Year’s Day, or thereabouts, I have the habit of reading “Ring out wild bells,” the Tennyson poem, from In Memoriam. In my book, it’s not only a great New Year’s poem — it’s a ...

She mentioned Maya Angelou’s poem “Human Family” and added ... “This is such a unique New Year’s Day, because even as we toast our glasses to the future, we still have our heads bowed for what has ...

Emperor Naruhito touched on the COVID-19 pandemic in the poem he wrote for the New Year Poetry Reading at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 18, as he had the past two years. In composing his ...

Emperor Naruhito once again wished for an end to the COVID-19 pandemic in his poem for the annual New Year Poetry Reading at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Also just like last year, all ...