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Poets' Day 2024: Here are 5 poets young readers can explore
Updated On: 21 August, 2024 10:00 AM IST | Mumbai | Nandini Varma
To celebrate Poets` Day today, we recommend five poets that young readers can check out to learn about this world of verses, ballads and odes
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Maya Angelou. Pic Courtesy/Marlene Callahan Wallace
British publisher and philanthropist William Sieghart once wrote in a Welsh daily, “I want people to read poetry on the bus, on their way to work, in the street, in school and in the pub.” Believing in the healing power of poetry, he compiled the anthology The Poetry Pharmacy, prescribing poems to readers as one would prescribe a pill for an illness. For Sieghart, a poem provides comfort to its audience in times of joy as well as in despairing times of pain and loneliness. He declared August 21 as National Poet’s Day in the year 1994, stating that there are millions of poets out there. He believed that it was about time their poems were recognised for their power to change lives. To celebrate the day, we’ve curated a list of five poets with diverse writing styles for young readers searching for ways to enter the fascinating world of poetry.
>> Maya Angelou: Angelou’s poems have become timeless anthems on resilience and help us pick ourselves up in times of adversity. Her words bite, and are equally sassy. Angelou was writing during the Civil Rights Movement in the US against racial segregation and became a key player in amplifying the voices of African Americans. “Out of the huts of history’s shame, I rise,” she wrote. Young readers will find strength and the deep weight of history in her verses.
OUR RECCO: Still, I Rise
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