The meaning of Rabindranath Tagore’s From Gitanjuli is simple yet powerful. Utopia should inform our vision for a country, or even more broadly, the world. Tagore approaches this message in a straightforward way, devoting nearly the entire poem—7 out of… Read More
William Wordsworth wrote “The world is too much with us” back in 1802. While I first read the poem my Junior year of high school, it really only touched me after this past Summer. I worked at an… Read More
Most people spend their lives attempting to obtain happiness and part of that is finding a place to call home. Some may think of it as a house, others a church, and still others a spouse or a… Read More
Over this past semester, I met with one of my pastors, Kathy Beech, for coffee once a month and discussed how everything in my life was going, almost like counseling, and one day she sent me a photo… Read More
When thinking about poetry that speaks to me, I always think of poets of color who I already feel a connection to through our shared identities as people of color. Although all of these identities vary from person… Read More
Harlem What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a… Read More
As I scrolled down my twitter feed the other day I stumbled upon the amazing spoken word of Clint Smith III titled Letters to Five of the Presidents Who Owned Slaves While They Were in Office…. Read More
The Waking by Theodore Roethke is a poem that highlights living life fully aware, with all forms of perception being utilized. The poem touches on big ideas such as fate, and death. Roethke actually intertwines those two ideas… Read More
The School Where I studied YEHUDA AMICHAI I passed by the school where I studied as a boy and said in my heart: here I learned certain things and didn’t learn others. All my life I have… Read More
I first came across this poem in Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which is one of my favorite young adult novels of all time. In the novel this poem was signed anonymously, but some of… Read More
