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 ...

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 ...

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

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

That has consequences for social cohesion and Black political power writ large. Church membership has plunged among Black adults by almost 20 percentage points in the last two decades, according ...

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.

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