Northwestern’s Black Poetry Society hosted its third annual “Speak On It” event Saturday evening, bringing together poets from across the Chicago area to share their work. This year’s event, held at ...

In honor of National Black Poetry Day, here are 20 contemporary Black poets we think you should be reading all year round. Every year, the mainstream literary gates seem to open just that much wider ...

Black Poetry Day does more than fill a spot on the calendar; it serves as a reminder that poetry has launched movements, created community, challenged power, and given poets a lane to voice their ...

From Langston Hughes’s jazz-infused verses to Amanda Gorman’s stirring inauguration performance, Black poets have long used their words to reflect, resist, and inspire. Their work spans themes of ...

In celebration of National Poetry Month, we spoke with four Black poets about their connection to poetry and how they hope their latest books in verse will inspire readers. My grandfather was a poet, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Aurélia Durand / For The Times) In December 1990, poet Cornelius Eady, now 71, was feeling dispirited by the literary world. He’d ...

Two remarkable new poetry collections are reshaping conversations about Black American identity and experience. Brad Walrond’s Every Where Alien and Cheryl Clarke‘s Archive of Style: New and Selected ...

The brutalities of American life have left deep scars in our literature, few more evident than the long absence of African American poets. Among the exceptions, at least two black poets published work ...

With words that pulse with vulnerability, sensuality, retrospection, and joy, a gifted collective of Black queer poets are crafting literary works that boldly reflect the fullness of Black queer life ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On the first brisk night of fall in Los Angeles, the self-described surrealist blues ...