In the early hours on Tuesday, about 12 hours before our treasured 12-year-old son died from a rare form of brain cancer, I climbed into his bed at Shaare Tzedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, wrapped ...

I remember standing outside of class and him looking at me like I was the only girl in the room. I remember smiling and giggling nervously as I entered class feeling his eyes still on me. I remember ...

Christopher de Vinck recalls a poem written by his mother shortly after her death: "Her poem did not heal my ache the day she died. Death is not a physician, but the hands of our mothers who love us, ...

Hanif Abduraqqib. Sarah Kay. Elizabeth Acevedo. Clint Smith. Do any of these names sound familiar? How about Amanda Gorman? All of these writers are part of America’s thriving contemporary poetry ...

When the cold optics of domination are left unchallenged, the dead die twice. The cruel euphemism of profit and the genocidal language of extermination meet their answer in Daniel Borzutzky’s “Poem ...

Like many boys his age, 10-year-old Benjamin Giroux is really into Star Wars, Legos and all things Minecraft."I have a Millennium Falcon about the size of a medium pizza," the fifth-grader said.Watch ...