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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

She also noticed that despite her hard work, the church's members were judging her harshly - as she remembers in her poem, Sabbath ... The lack of opportunities for black models made matters ...

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

Plus, celebrating Black history in New Bedford, concerts, poetry, and new exhibits at the Whaling Museum. So when someone asks you what you want to do, you’ve got your plans ready to go.

Percival Everett’s “James,” Salman Rushdie’s “Knife” and Diane Seuss’ “Modern Poetry” are among the ... and Justice in an American Church,” by Eliza Griswold, who won the ...