One book that echoes the themes explored in Langston Hughes's poetry is The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois. This ...
Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a ...
GOLDEN • Terry Nash approaches the stage, a yellow bandana fastened around his neck, cowboy hat secured on his head and ...
His poetry, often simple yet profoundly evocative, captures the essence of the African American experience and, by extension, ...
I went to my rest a sober man, content with the stable progression of elements I found to be more reliable than any prayer.
The City of Jacksonville is hosting an African American Read-In Event on Sunday, Feb. 2 to kick off Black History Month.This ...
The visiting poet program of Central Lakes College presents Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo on Feb. 12 in the Chalberg Theatre, Brainerd campus. A poetry reading is ...
Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...
New and Selected Poems, 1984-2023, award-winning poet Gregory Djanikian returns to the literary scene with a collection that spans and celebrates his prolific career. Written over several decades, ...
Take his play The Dutchman, for example, and his poem “Babylon Revisited.” Both of these works take on the elite, white liberal fascination with African-American artists in the 1960s (skewered ...