If you want to beef up your Fourth of July celebration and go beyond the basic fireworks, hotdogs, and white pants, you might want to consider reading up on some Independence Day-related literature.

power launches keep breasting the sulphurous wave. Otters slide and dive and slick back their hair, raccoons clean their meat in the creek. we no longer control could drag us back. “July in Washington ...

The Fourth of July makes for the perfect opportunity to spend some time thinking about America and its past, present, and future. The authors of these Fourth of July poems certainly have done just ...

The seniors are all coming with crutches and canes. They're shuffling and walking, ignoring their pains. It's a Christmas Party in July; whoever thought of such a thing? Must be some kind of modern ...

Abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass gave his powerful “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” 172 years ago. The speech was a powerful illustration of the disparity between the ...

I'm going to assume lots of people were off enjoying vacations and didn't have time to write poems in July, since I received only seven entries. Still, those seven poems are fine sensory explorations, ...