I feed it coins and watch the spring coil back, the clunk of a vacuum-packed, foil-wrapped dream dropping into the tray. It dispenses all kinds of dreams—bad dreams, good dreams, short nightmares to ...

They answered him, “We each had a dream, but there is no one to interpret it.” So Joseph said to them, “Surely interpretations belong to God! Please tell me your dreams.” ~ Genesis 40:8 I wanted to ...

His writing career began the year after he graduated from high school with the 1921 poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” His first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, followed in 1926. Throughout his work, ...

Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dream, c. 1896-1902, by James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902), Source: Jewish Museum, New York/Public Domain About three years ago, I started a series of poems in the ...

Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets of all time. He was the first Black writer and poet to make his living through his words. He led the Harlem Renaissance, ...