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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Faleeha Hassan is not someone who relishes time alone with her thoughts. In fact, being alone with her thoughts might cause the 48-year-old poet torture to the point of madness. Hassan’s life in her ...

The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has announced the winners of the 2008 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards. Since 1995, the Santa Barbara-based foundation has made an annual series of awards to ...

Alachua County students of all ages will read poems celebrating peace at a poetry reading Saturday, hosted by the Gainesville chapter of Veterans for Peace. Out of 283 submissions, 30 students were ...

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 ...

Dance Alive National Ballet’s student group, The Next Generation, is set to take the stage with a wildly varied concert beginning at 4 p.m. May 6 at Eastside High School Theatre, 1201 SE 43rd St.