They've now recorded a special poem for BBC London to mark "one year on". Video by Cris Mantio. Subsection. London. Published. 22 March 2021. Share. close panel. Share page. Copy link. About sharing.

This short poem grapples with so many themes at once — seeing, being seen, desire, racism, selfhood and memory. The poem starts in a matter-of-fact fashion with a declarative, “I don’t like ...

The poem was added to the base of the statue in the early 1900s, like 1903, I think. And the poem is just a poem that somebody wrote. It's not a founding document.

Dear Joanne: I agree the poem is a treasure. It was written by a former assistant United Nations secretary-general who passed away in 2010 at the age of 87. His words are as relevant today as they ...

Poet and activist Amanda Gorman recited an original poem on the third night of the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, in a follow-up to the historic recitation of her original “The ...

Amanda Gorman responds to the restriction of her poem for President Biden’s inauguration, “The Hill We Climb,” at a Miami Lakes school library: “So they ban my book from young readers ...

Moore was a native New Yorker who wrote the poem on a snowy winter evening in 1822 in the neighborhood now known as Chelsea. "He was looking at these ideas that were circulating in New York City.

The poem only tells us that as a boy Hayden lived in fear of “the chronic angers of that house.” Probably we all know the fatigue that comes from too much work.

Commissioned by President Clinton, Angelou recited her poem during the 1993 presidential innaguration. During her Grammy acceptance speech, Dr. Angelou, dressed in a fuchsia floor-length gown, was ...