Badour explores pop culture, sports, family dynamics and Black liberation. Britta Badour's powerful poetry is inspired by her family, community and her experience of Blackness Badour, better ...

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 ...

In Ordinary Notes, a extraordinary work of memoir, poetry, and criticism ... sadomasochism of everyday black life,” while her second, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, was a genre-bending ...

Hemphill, a Black, gay poet and activist who died from AIDS-related complications in 1995, was a unparalleled voice for queer ...

In that spirit, ahead of the show’s May 10 opening, use the (abundant!) reading list below, supplied by Miller, as a sort of ...

Her poetry collections have sold thousands of copies, leading to invitations to some of the biggest television shows, including The Tonight Show. Often known as the “Princess of Black Poetry ...

This week, The New Yorker will be announcing the longlists for the 2022 National Book Awards. On Wednesday, we presented the lists for Young People’s Literature and Translated Literature.

It is also the title of a group of poems and was used as the title of a recital of Carter’s poetry presented on ‘black Friday ... bitter legacy of slavery, blackness and suffering in ...

Black artist David Hammons’s piece ... and sound in ways that aren’t as subtle is a beautiful way to convey Blackness and its meditations on dance and music. Composer Benjamin Patterson ...