In her early work, such as Good Times (1969) and Good News about the Earth: New Poems (1972), Clifton explores the realities of African-American urban life, drawing from her own experiences as a ...

One of America’s foremost Black poets, Hughes writes that dreams are essential to a happy life. That the powerful play goes ...

The Atlanta-based artist's third collection of poetry, “boy maybe,” takes readers on an emotional roller coaster exploring grief, love, police brutality and Black culture.

Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roam ... poem selected for inclusion in a landmark anthology of Black American poetry, Caroling Dusk, when he was just 25 years old.

The poet and activist talks about the precarity that trans, queer, and Afrodescendent people in Cuba face today, and the life ...