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Amanda Gorman once said in her 2018 TED Talk, “Using Your Voice Is A Political Choice,” that all art is political. Gorman, who became the youngest inaugural poet in history when she recited her poem ...

Additionally, during her remarks, Battle-Baptiste surprised Wallace — herself an eminent spoken word artist under the stage name “Lyrical Faith” — by announcing her as the W.E.B. Du Bois Center’s ...

“Performance Poetry, Slam & Digital Era” was hosted by Roscoe Burnems, a spoken word poet who became Richmond, Va.’s inaugural poet laureate, and who hosted the Poetry Slam the previous night. His ...

More than 100 poems were submitted for review, with 42 selected for the signs along the inaugural Poetry Walk. Readers are again being invited to submit their own original short poems to be considered ...

It seems like every single one of Amanda Gorman’s achievements is a piece of history in the making. She is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, having performed her poem “The Hill We Climb” at ...

will be presented to Amanda Gorman. An award-winning writer and activist, and the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, Gorman has used her platform to raise awareness on a host of issues from ...

Throughout February, in honor of Black History Month, School 70’s School Racial Equity Team is leading a school-wide initiative called "One Book, One School," using the book "Change Sings" by renowned ...