Emma Lazarus, born on this day in 1849. Read her work at Poets.org.
In this week’s Teach This Poem, students will learn about the immigrant experience at Ellis Island with Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus” and this photo by Lewis Wickes Hine. Find out more at Poets.org.
Credit: Romana Javitz Collection; transferred from the Picture Collection, 1991. digitalcollections.nypl.org