Lucille Clifton's poems often address Black history and various aspects of the African-American experience. Her work is deeply rooted in the history and culture of Black people in America ...

Poetry is a vessel for greater understanding in the same way that a voice is a vessel for language,” Price said.

These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

Poets Safia Elhillo, Jamila Woods and members of the Stanford Spoken Word Collective shared poems both personal and political ...

The job of a poet laureate is to engage Illinoisans in poetry, with each poet laureate given a small stipend to enact that ...

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

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

After his death, I finally ventured into writing those short poems and realized they were ... no poem long enough to say the solidarity we, Black American people, feel ancestrally for our brothers ...

Boyd is retired Wayne State University distinguished professor of African American Studies ... and encouraging our young people to recognize the power of poetry to stimulate creative thinking ...