Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a ...

Charles Cutler of Hawley first became fascinated by the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa in the early 1960s when Cutler was in ...

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 ...

Poet and anthropologist Nomi Stone is the author of three books, most recently the poetry collection Kill Class (Tupelo, 2019), finalist for the Julie Suk Award and the ethnography Pinelandia: An ...

GOLDEN • Terry Nash approaches the stage, a yellow bandana fastened around his neck, cowboy hat secured on his head and ...

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 ...

Knoxville will mark Black History Month in 2025 with art and performances, plus a "Conversation with a Legend" featuring Beck ...

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 ...

San Diego has named Paola Capó-García as its third Poet Laureate since the program began in 2020. A former journalist and ...

Czesław Miłosz lost his homeland to a Stalinist regime. What have we Americans valued in our own cultural past that might now ...

The world we live in is a wasteland of words, but reading poetry reminds us that language can be used with precision and ...