From Phillis Wheatley — America's first published black female poet — to beloved writers Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou and James Baldwin, the contributions of black lyricists have revolutionized the ...

The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire has launched a series of free virtual events highlighting Black poets. It's called "The Black Matter Is Life: Poetry for Engagement and Overcoming" and it's ...

A painting of scientist George Washington Carver, the subject of Marilyn Nelson's book of poetry, "Carver: A Life in Poems." A poetry night from the Black Heritage Trail of N.H. is exploring where ...

Every year, the mainstream literary gates seem to open just that much wider to allow for more diverse stories and voices. To help push those gates open even further, National Black Poetry Day, which ...

There are many types of poetry in the world, from love poems that will make you swoon to nature poems and protest poems that examine the world around us in very different ways. But all poetry, even ...

Boris ‘Bluz’ Rogers: We want to remind the city that we are definitely, like, glad we're here. We are glad that we got to experience what the city has to offer and everything that the city gives us ...

"Afrofuturism's not just about imagining people in the future but also reimagining black history," Woods told me over the phone a few weeks before I met her in Chicago. "I remember reading a story ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. [The Best Books of 2020: View our full list.] In her stirring essay “The Difficult Miracle of Black ...

Black Poetry Day does more than fill a spot on the calendar; it serves as a reminder that poetry has launched movements, created community, challenged power, and given poets a lane to voice their ...

Award-winning author and producer Kwame Alexander just released his latest work. It's an anthology by Black poets called, "This Is the Honey." Amna Nawaz discussed the book with Alexander for our arts ...

Matt Sandler begins his text on Black abolitionist poets with the story of Sara Lucy Bagby, a slave who escaped from slavery in Virginia and made her way to Cleveland, Ohio. Bagby was the last ...