While Springsteen sang about the Rising. Laguna Woods author and poet Charles Redner recently wrote this poem to honor the 22nd anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and the thousands of lives lost.

Bombs are dropping across the world, yet here, in my garden, flowers bloom, birds sing, the grass grows luxuriant. Soldiers are shooting soldiers, people hide in bomb shelters, people are hungry. Here ...

Eighth-grade home-schooled student Iris Riverstone (second from left) receives recognition at the Hannibal Tavares Community Center on April 28 for her grand-prize-award-winning poem in the 18th ...

Fifth-grade student Carly Dudoit from Kualapuu Public Conversion Charter School receives recognition for her grand prize award-winning poem in the 18th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Poetry ...

“Circle is the shape of love, and if you split it in thirds, it’s the symbol of peace and, when peace and love come together it becomes indestructible,” read Nathan Lagueux, a third-grader from the ...

Hello Alexandria! I am thrilled to have been appointed as the Poet Laureate of Alexandria. Yes, I write poetry, I read poetry and even use poetry in my work as a clinical social worker and teacher. In ...

DV You say: “And I knew that night true peace/ for me would never come,” and that “This suffering world/ is mine, mine to suffer in its grief.” It seems to me that these lines get at some essential ...

KAPA‘A — Ryan-Leonard Peters from Kapa’a Middle School was awarded the Kaua‘i grand prize in the 22nd annual the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Poetry Awards by the International Peace Poem ...

Like seven generations of men before him, Andrew Himes was expected to become a Baptist preacher. But that plan changed when he was in eighth grade and a race riot broke out in his school in rural ...

For four weeks, a social media Poetry for Peace contest invited the world to hear the living testimonies of atomic bomb survivors, called HIBAKUSHA, and respond to their stories in verse. People were ...

Seldom does the phrase “like father, like son” refer to such stately titles as poet laureate. But following his late father’s footsteps, Kim Stafford has just been appointed the next poet laureate of ...