Life is a barren field. Frozen with snow. A key figure of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, Langston Hughes wrote about ...

With words that pulse with vulnerability, sensuality, retrospection, and joy, a gifted collective of Black queer poets are ...

For two years, Antwon Rose’s poem lived in his 10th grade English teacher’s electronic grade book, largely forgotten. After he was shot dead by police, she found it again.

Langston Hughes poems are about the ordinary Black man—his struggle, his mundane life, his beauty and his dreams. There’s no better way to describe Hughes’s poetry than with his own words ...

But unlike other migrant groups, Black Americans did not assimilate and were victimized by prevailing racism. These historical truths energize Nzadi Keita’s stunning new collection of poems about a ...

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Matt Forrest Esenwine, who lives in Warner, New Hampshire. Matt is an award-winning children’s author and poet who began writing poems when he ...

Prairie View A&M University’s Toni Morrison Writing Program hosted a public lecture for Nikki Giovanni. The lecture took place at The Ensemble Theatre in Houston, at 7 p.m. Giovanni read and ...

I learned that Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black voters in Miami while researching a story six years ago. In “The Ballad of Sam Solomon,” Hughes documents how Overtown resident Samuel B ...

Vasser-Elong says much, however, in the short “Pocket poem #1”: I’m sure the world is tired. of angry Black man poems. about the struggle as much as those angry Black men are tired of struggling ...

Gwendolyn Brooks, a 32-year-old housewife and part-time secretary, has won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for “Annie Allen,” a ballad of Black Chicago life on May 1, 1950. Brooks is the first ...