With words that pulse with vulnerability, sensuality, retrospection, and joy, a gifted collective of Black queer poets are ...

In 1996 the Academy of American Poets dubbed April National Poetry Month to celebrate the richness of American poetry. In its honor, here are 20 black American poets who have shown brilliance in ...

The post 20 Black poets to know this National Black Poetry ... Gorman stole the hearts of the country in 2021 with her elegant Inauguration Day poem, ... which deals with themes of self-love. ...

Black Poetry Day occurs every year on October 17th, and the day is all about celebrating the poetic works of great Black authors, writers, and poets. The holiday was first proposed in 1970 by ...

I would not be the poet I am without the work and the mentorship of Black poets. I am rereading poems by Aracelis Girmay, my brilliant former teacher; Jericho Brown, who picked my book for ...

Yet the new 1,000-page anthology, “African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song,” front loads the pairing of resistance but also joy that’s found right in the title.

“African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song,” edited by Kevin Young, contains an overwhelming amount of variety and history.

Nikki Giovanni participates in the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival celebrating the bicentennial publication of poems in the Jacob L. Reddix Campus Union at Jackson State College on Novemver 7th ...

As in most Hollywood fare featuring the beleaguered black male, the hero in Theodore Witcher’s “love jones” carries a loaded weapon. But in a departure from “Menace II Socie… ...