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

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.

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

Kiya Vance was recently inaugurated as Corpus Christi's poet laureate. He is the first Black person to hold the title. Vance, chosen by the People's Literary Festival board, aims to promote ...

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

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

Atlanta-based poet and artist W.J. Lofton‘s third collection of poetry, “boy maybe,” includes 51 poems that take his readers on an emotional roller coaster exploring grief, love, police ...

In tough times, Amanda Johnston is creating a community of gratitude with contributions from poets all across the state.

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.