Storyteller and bookseller Katie Mitchell honors over fifty Black bookstores in her new book, exploring their role in shaping ...

MINNEAPOLIS — For The Love of Blaq Art is celebrating Black artists, poets and creators Thursday in Minneapolis. The event ...

Revered Black queer poet and activist Essex Hemphill’s literary works have finally returned to print in a newly released ...

From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf The ...

If poets are often characterized ... As she writes in her poem “castaway,” “the wound teaches us to remember where tomorrow glows.” Black artists have been doing this for centuries, ...

Overlooked, underutilized and underpaid is how Terri Bailey said she would characterize the Black artistic community in Gainesville. Born and raised in Gainesville, Bailey has witnessed firsthand ...

Feb. 21, the University of Massachusetts’ Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research and the Black Healing, Joy and ...

His 1993 book Ceremonies was his only published full-length collection — with the pioneering work pulling together poetry and prose that explored themes of sex and love from the Black queer ...

In honor of Black History Month, The Crimson’s Arts Board reflected on their favorite poems written by Black authors, and ...

The state was home to the historically important Black poetry group the Dark Room Collective ... Once a month I choose a poem I love and have a conversation about it with an online group of ...

Nikki Giovanni was honored by the Poetry Society of America for her work in the Black Arts Movement and her extensive career.