Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child from West Africa and sold into slavery in Boston. Despite systemic ...

Seamus Heaney Fellow, Fiona Benson, has chosen her shortlist of four for this year’s Moth Poetry Prize, and commended a ...

My personal statement for my college applications was about Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken.” One of my favorite ...

"So be careful with the company you keep. Not all who cry with you feel your pain. Theirs might be tears of joy," warns Sonnie Ibadah in Dear Heart, a poem from her book Odyness to Madness—a powerful ...

The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...

After days of Democratic agonizing, the Senate voted to keep federal funds flowing through Sept. 30 just hours before a midnight deadline. Schumer, Facing Backlash From Democrats, Says He’ll ...

Ruth Padel, poet and author, argues that Fainlight’s feminism is only one of the many strands of her work. “Above all, she’s ...

and the forces that shape women's choices. Read an excerpt below. I have always longed to be known, truly known, by another human being. Sometimes we live for years with yearnings that we cannot name.

Carl Phillips’s latest collection, Scattered Snows, To The North (Carcanet), is rich in his by-now familiar long, ...

Savitribai Phule understood the suffering of Brahmin widows, taught students from all classes, helped victims of famines, ...

The Friday Poem is edited by Hera Lindsay Bird. Submissions are now open. Please send up to three poems in a PDF or Word ...

Diné poet Esther Belin has noticed the unique way writers from her community often engage with the English language.