I wrote the essay to address -- as directly and candidly as possible -- the increasing cultural isolation of American poetry. Although I did not set out to provoke controversy, I knew my criticism ...

One book that echoes the themes explored in Langston Hughes's poetry is The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois. This ...

GOLDEN • Terry Nash approaches the stage, a yellow bandana fastened around his neck, cowboy hat secured on his head and ...

His poetry, often simple yet profoundly evocative, captures the essence of the African American experience and, by extension, ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by ...

The visiting poet program of Central Lakes College presents Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo on Feb. 12 in the Chalberg Theatre, Brainerd campus. A poetry reading is ...

Yeats, wrote ruefully about his waning poetic powers in “The Circus Animal’s Desertion,” published in The Atlantic in January 1939, the month of his death at age 73. In this apocalyptic depiction of ...

His book "Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako," published by the University of California Press, received both the 2009 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission for the Translation of Japanese ...

New and Selected Poems, 1984-2023, award-winning poet Gregory Djanikian returns to the literary scene with a collection that spans and celebrates his prolific career. Written over several decades, ...