Black History Month traces back to 1915, half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. In that pivotal year, Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland founded ...

all with a shared ability – like most of us – to be moved to tears by a line of poetry. These women, along with 96 inspirational others, have shared the private stories behind the poems that ...

But behind these numbers, overwhelming in their sheer vastness, are individuals, those whose voices we hear especially clearly in poems ... Some Holocaust poets became famous, and their work ...