From sweet and sentimental to deep and moving, these Mother's Day poems really show the complexity and beauty of motherhood.
An excerpt from ‘Coins in River’, by Rochelle Potkar.
'Within this room of stone I lie, and watch the traffic hurry by, outside the narrow window pane, where love and life alike are vain, and ponder, between them and we, who the real prisoners be,' wrote jailed pro-lifer Jonathan Darnel.
My poems were written in anger after Tiananmen Square. But what motivates most prison writing is a fear of forgetting. Today I am free, but the regime has never stopped its war on wordsMost of my manuscripts are locked up in the filing cabinets of the ministry of security, and the agents there study and ponder them repeatedly, more carefully than the creator himself. The guys working this racket have superb memories; a certain chief of the Chengdu public security bureau can still recite the...
The poem tells Big Pharma that 'we’re not invisible,' 'we’re here in plain sight, you just refuse to look.'
The son of Officer William "Alden" Elliott wrote a heartfelt poem in his father's obituary.
Loading Over the course of April, which is Poetry Month, WNYC producers have been asking our audience to submit their own poems about the places that are important to them, and what’s happening there. We talk about the project, and hear some poems read by the poets themselves along with Amanda Rozon, assistant producer at WNYC's Morning Edition who spearheaded WNYC's listener poetry project. Right now, "The Wiz" is undergoing a revival on Broadway. The show, a musical spinoff of "The Wizard...
Jay Blades's wife Lisa shared a poem talking about suffering 'unbearable' pain after the couple's shock marriage split was revealed.