This spring, we asked our readers to craft poems on the topic of dreams. Most of us have a hard time remembering how our dreams begin, but we can recall the feelings they evoke, whether a sense of ...

Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Here’s a poem about patience ... after the bracing semicolon — rush toward that anxious future. The speaker seems to want to get through this as quickly as ...

“Dream Variations” is a celebration of black identity and a hopeful vision for a future free from racial oppression. Finish story here; 10 Langston Hughes Poems That Define the American Spirit.

His poem read: “Tabisaki ni/ Deaishi Korawa/ Kataritaru/ Mami Kagayakase/ Mirai no Yume wo” (The children I met on my journeys/ Talked with sparkling eyes/ Of their dreams for the future).