Let’s face it. You’re not Wordsworth. But don’t you ever find yourself in need of a poem to express your love for your boyfriend or husband, can’t seem to write one that sounds genuine and are totally ...

It’s #WorldPoetryDay! Celebrate with us by enjoying these examples of incredible literature and personal expression by poets from across the African continent. Bassey Ikpi, a Nigerian-born but America ...

This enormous, in some ways groundbreaking, anthology shows the range and depth of verse about the captivity, enslavement and sometime freedom of peoples of African descent in the English-speaking ...

Amanda Gorman performed “The Miracle of Morning” on CBS in April of 2020 to help heal the nation. “For it’s our grief that gives us our gratitude, Shows us how to find hope, if we ever lose it. So ...

Blood Orange’s just-released Freetown Sound pulses with a beautiful melange of voices, from established artists such as Carly Rae Jepsen and Empress Of, to samples from De La Soul and Paris Is Burning ...

I'm going to think I'm being clever here and ask you a question similar to one you asked poet W.D. Snodgrass when you interviewed him for The American Poetry review in 1986, when you said you looked ...