For a lone individual (and an African-American woman at that!) to be given the responsibility of choosing who would represent American poetry for the entire past century was unheard of.

Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child from West Africa and sold into slavery in Boston. Despite systemic ...

Although best known as the author of the first poem composed by an African American woman, Lucy Terry Prince ... Although Lucy Terry was a poet, only one of her poems, a ballad called "Bars ...

As a creative professional with over 20 years of experience in higher education, adult literacy, and the social expression industry, Michelle Rankins has leveraged those skills to curate innovative ...

She was the first African-American woman to write a script that was made into a Hollywood movie, the first female poet to read a poem at a President's inauguration and the first female African ...

Forgotten Women is a series dedicated to ... who was the first well-known black female poet in the western world and the first African-American to publish a book. Phyllis’s life started out ...

Woman’s Hour spoke to two Black performance artists about the impact this year has had on them and their work. Performance poet Sophia Thakur has been featured on MTV, BET and TED and has been ...

Poets from the San Diego community came together for an inspiring virtual evening hosted by Counselor Judy Sundayo and ...

Rodgers was announced as state poet in January — the first African American to do so in Nebraska. “To be state poet is not to be the best poet in the state, it is to have the duty and ...