Born in 1876, Zitkála-Šá was a poet, short story writer, musician, activist, member of the Yankton Dakota Sioux and co-founder of the National Council of American Indians. In her 1898 poem “Iris of ...

Among her lighter works is the poem “Thanksgiving ... For this would we give thanks. A simple, short poem with a fixed refrain, Hattie Howard’s “Let Us Give Thanks” gets to the core ...

She addressed gender issues in her work, and was a female poet at a time when the area was dominated by men. Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of the plants most ...

To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown, and how the pandemic has changed their lives.