We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

One of my favorite poems of Dunbar’s is “We Wear the Mask,” which beautifully portrays the weight that many Black people carry as ... of the most celebrated American poets, period.

Two national literary figures, Marion Winik and Naomi Shahid Nye, have collected the prose and poetry of late Texan Ann ...

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 ...

“Carl Sandburg helped the American people discover their national identity through songs, poems, and prose,” says Niven. “It’s good to know something about his work as a poet, a biographer, a creator ...

He's hoping that it's going to reach the American people. He's finally found his form, what he's going to do and he thinks that he's going to sell numbers of volumes of poems throughout the ...

I felt called to speak to the importance of poetry, the humanities and the arts in our lives. It meant serving as a lightning rod for the American people in their quest for those truths that ...

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

For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did ...

are the souls of my people. One of America’s most famous poets, Langston Hughes was a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, a huge upsurge in art and literature in the Black American community ...

What's wrong with those people?" "What people ... 44 magnum. Warren Zevon is a poet. He has written more classics than any other musician of our time, with the possible exception of Bob Dylan.