My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heidi Mordhorst, who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland — a short bike ride from Washington, D.C. Heidi began writing poems early in childhood and favors ...
During a poetry slam, such as the Feminist Poetry Night held at The World Famous on March 23, the raw passion and oftentimes pain in the speaker’s words often refers to themes such as race, feminism ...
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 ...
Two time-stamped poems are taken from a book-length sequence tracking the human moments of a factory night shift ...
GENESEE COUNTY, MI – When Jacob Keys, a 17-year-old senior at Carman-Ainsworth High School, saw the “Inspire” mural on the outskirts of downtown Flint, it reminded him of his childhood. The mural ...
Nandi Comer (center right) stands with high school students participating in nonprofit InsideOut Literary Arts’s Citywide Poets Program, which offers weekly writing workshops and performance and ...
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 ...
…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 ...