For Black History Month, Blue Peter commissioned some special poems by black spoken word artists to celebrate black history and to take action and work together to build a better future for people ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – When Ephriam David Tyler died in 1969 at age 85, he had written and published his way through ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

In honor of Jupiter Hammon's 313th birthday, his poem, "An Essay on Slavery," will be read at Joseph Lloyd Manor in Lloyd's ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include a debut by Dzifa Benson and an extraordinary posthumous collection from Gboyega ...

The writing in this poem is taut, graceful and intelligent in a way that shows the mystical themes of life, including love, death, the mind and body, the church and Christ, and idealism.

Who’s got time for poems when the world’s on fire?” asks Aja Monet in the heart-achingly beautiful and gut-wrenchingly honest ...

Poe’s writing career began in the early 1820s with the release of “Tamerlane and Other Poems,” a collection ... including the dreadful black room. The Masque of the Red Death is an allegory ...

Atlanta-based poet Jericho Brown talks about being named one of 22 recipients of the MacArthur Foundation's 2024 "Genius" grants.

Averil Meehan The car backfires – its sound cracks upon your ears like a whip, slashing you in two. One half stays where ...

Glenn Horowitz built a fortune selling the archives of writers such as Vladimir Nabokov and Alice Walker. Then a rock star ...