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 ...

Those who have wrestled with symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment have been subjected to skepticism, criticism, bullying and shaming comments, writes.

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 ...

been blazed the brightest black from this rampant beat-ing of waves. We always dance when our bodies break against the shore. Below, another one of our favourites that you can share from the list of ...

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 ...

And so that means people from rural America should be here, the people from urban spaces, Black, white. Every background, Latino, has to be represented so that our solutions are complete.