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: ...

Poetry and feminism have always been intertwined but in recent years, many new feminist and queer voices have emerged and ...

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Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing ...

“The ferocious parts of the Psalms,” Lewis writes, “serve as a reminder that there is in the world such a thing as wickedness ...

Born in 1902, Arna Bontemps had this short poem selected for inclusion in a landmark anthology of Black American poetry, Caroling Dusk, when he was just 25 years old. It was the beginning of a ...

Revered Black queer poet and activist Essex Hemphill’s literary works have finally returned to print in a newly released collection called Love is a Dangerous Word: the Selected Poems of Essex ...

Holland High School held a poetry contest in honor of Black History Month. Sophomore Cherlande Stout won the contest with the poem "Rise Up." Holland Middle School also celebrated Black History ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...