Langston Hughes isn’t just one of the most well-known Black poets of the early 20th century—he’s one of the most celebrated ...

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 ...

The room was filled with energetic cheers and claps as pets of different categories, including middle school, high school and an adult 21 and older category.

Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

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

San Diego has named Paola Capó-García as its third Poet Laureate since the program began in 2020. A former journalist and ...

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 ...

By CAROLYN BROWN Staff Writer Peter Gizzi, professor of poetry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently won the ...

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 ...

A recent episode of PBS documentary series "Finding Your Roots" featured Rita Dove, an award-winning poet from Akron.