How two women saved war poems 100 years apart

Two women have saved a war poet's work from being lost - twice over and more than 100 years apart. Only 24, Nowell Oxland died in World War One in 1915, nine days before one of his poems, about his ...
The Republic

A song of ‘Success’: Columbus Indiana Children’s Choir to perform new work based on late local woman’s poem

Mike Wolanin | The Republic Members of the Columbus Indiana Children’s Choir follow choir director Melissa Garcia as she conducts rehearsal at Helen Haddad Hall in Columbus, Ind., Monday, April 15, ...
NPR

These poems by Latin American women reflect a multilingual region

Award-winning writer, editor and filmmaker Sandra Guzmán once heard an alarming statistic: Every 14 days, an Indigenous language dies around the world. That is, in part, what prompted her to seek out ...
AOL

Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise” Poem Speaks to the Experience of Black Women

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Maya Angelou’s iconic poem “Still I Rise” has had an impact on the world that will echo throughout ...
NPR

Maxine Hong Kingston's work is as wondrous and alive as ever in this collection

Near the end of her incandescent 1976 memoir, The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston tells the story of a knot-maker in China who tied a knot so complicated that it made him blind. In response, the ...