Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Julia Schroers, a 14-year-old student from Guilford, CT. You ...

Live your life the way you want. It’s YOUR decision. Very few can do what they like, completely unrestricted. Every year we celebrate Passover to remind us of our freedom — freedom from the Egyptians ...

How can it be, with streaming services and cable channels engaged in an all-out arms race for our so-called “entertainment” dollars, that no one has produced reality show about poets? Consider the ...

Vicki Grace Boguszewski (the Poet, Jah Love) is the lead poet at the Key West Poetry Guild. Below is her take on poems that ...

…and He will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and the Lord will pass over the entrance, and He will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses to smite [you] -Exodus 12:23 Step ...

Podcast host and teacher Lauran Woolley says she got reported to the Board of Education for reading to her former second-grade class a poem about freedom. Speaking on this week’s episode of Teachers ...

Zhang poses next to his poem The wall, whitewashed by parties unknown, after the poem went viral. Everybody thinks the authorities sent someone to erase the poem for reasons that must remain unspoken.