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Amanda Gorman Was the Light of the Inauguration

I felt numb at first, but the wisdom of someone 20 years my junior finally brought me to tears

“Black Kids Know What We Need. We Are Just Asking for Fuel.”

America’s National Youth Poet Laureate on why adults need to listen to young people

“Maybe I Could Save Myself By Writing”

As a Latinx teen in Chicago, he belonged nowhere — until he found his voice

“I Don’t Know How Many Fights I’ve Been In, But I’ve Only Lost One”

A bullied kid reinvents herself as a brawler, and then a poet

A Poem for an Unjust World

Poet Aja Monet on Audre Lorde’s “Power”

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