Not every poem is meant to reveal meaning about some facet of life, but some events, people, experiences or places certainly ...

Fullwood, Black Gay Genius honors Beam’s impact and his revolutionary literary works. With Beam as its guiding inspiration, the anthology also aspires to empower future generations of Black queer ...

As an esteemed poet and a retired professor of philosophy at UW-Milwaukee, John Koethe kept those two worlds separate. “I ...

As a part of SU’s annual Syracuse Symposium series, New York State Poet Laureate Patricia Spear Jones read from her newest ...

Explore 8 powerful but lesser-known poems by Maya Angelou that reveal her depth, spirit, and poetic genius—perfect for discovery during National Poetry Month.

What It’s About: The latest from The Verge journalist and novelist Nguyen (“New Waves”) follows four Vietnamese American cousins whose lives are thrown into disarray after the U.S. government ...

matthews — who prefers to write his name in lowercase because he believes his name is insignificant compared to the message he has to give — doesn’t just read his poems; he treats them like theatrical ...

A New Collection' by Farrukh Dhondy will be released on 2 April on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching ...

Poetry is alive and well in Alaska, and April as Poetry Month is a great time to meet or reacquaint ourselves with three very ...

Line dancing has been a part of celebrations in Black communities for decades, but more recently it has taken on new meaning ...

It was a wonder to see the sage, Nigerian Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka man the stage at the 6th ProvidusBank World Poetry Day Café, held on March 21 at Terra Kulture Arena in Lagos. The ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...