In honor of Mother’s Day, Kwame Alexander asked a dozen fellow poets for a few stanzas on how their lives—and their cooking—now mirror their mothers’. Here’s what happened next.
, a Puerto Rican poet and Army veteran, is the founder of the Mariposa Poetry Series, and the author of, written during her son’s two tours in Iraq; andserved as curator of the Smithsonian's Duke Ellington Collection in Washington, D.C. for over twenty years. He is a poet and writer whose music reviews have been published in the Washington Post, Washington City Paper, Jazz Times, and on All Things Considered.is one of the Caribbean's most distinguished contemporary poets.
She is currently working on her first children’s book along with a third collection of poetry and is a student of Jin Shin Jyutsu.is the Writer-in-Residence at the American School in London as well as NPR Morning Edition’s Poet-in-Residence. He is the author of 35 books, and co-creator of a Disney+ series based on his Newbery Medal-winning novel,
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