The Singing Word will be published this September, and is available for preorder now. In an introduction to “The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far),” the project’s editors ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: maybe because it came as an unexpected gift from a friend or loved one, or in ...

Celebrate National Poetry Month with a selection of poetry collections by El Paso authors whose work reflects life on the ...

Atlanta is home to some of the most accomplished and celebrated poets in the country. To celebrate National Poetry Month, we’ve rounded up 13 collections by Atlanta poets.

including African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song published in October 2020. In 2016, he became the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research division ...

A scholar of African-American literature and culture, Alexander recently published a collection of essays, The Black Interior. Whether in prose or poetry, hers is a vital and vivid poetic voice on ...

Spurred on by the success of Black History Month in February and Women’s History Month in March, the Academy of American Poets ... A widely published poet, Swerdlow teaches literature and ...

Acevedo is an American poet, who performs slam poetry at festivals all over the world. Slam poetry is a form of spoken word poetry in which the poet performs a poem like a singer sings a song.

The Atlantic has prized and published poetry since its founding ... progress within the many traditions that feed into American poetry was difficult enough. For all the variety that emerged ...