Junauda Petrus, the second poet laureate of Minneapolis, plans to bring poetry to barber shops, buses and community spaces while engaging youth and elders through storytelling.

Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one ...

A Poetic Celebration of Place & Folk" will perform poems from the album for the first time at the Carolina Theatre on Friday, ...

Born in New Orleans in 1812, Armand Lanusse was a free man of color who worked as an educator, editor, poet, writer and ...

April is National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate the beauty and power of poetry. This monthlong celebration, established ...

Though the official induction won't happen for a few days, it was a passing of the torch moment in the Capitol Rotunda. The ...

The collection brings Ceremonies back into print alongside a number of uncollected pieces pulled from the archives of such ...

Though led by NYPIRG and Fahari-Libertad, multiple clubs on campus participated in the fair. These included In Living Color, ...

He’d attended the Assn. of Writers & Writing Programs conference in Denver that year and felt like he was the only Black poet in attendance. “I wasn’t,” he assures me, all these decades later.