Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Victoria Y.T. Nealey, a 13-year-old student at the Brandeis ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heidi Mordhorst, who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland — a short bike ride from Washington, D.C. Heidi began writing poems early in childhood and favors ...

Amanda Gorman, who read her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the 2021 presidential inauguration, said one parent's complaint about a book shouldn't result in it being inaccessible to others. Gorman told ...