Danez Smith is a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist for the poetry book ‘Bluff,’ published by Graywolf Press in Minneapolis.

If we’re being honest here, a true starter pack of modern American poetry would look something like this: “Goodnight Moon,” “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.” For many of us poetry ...

Spoken-word poets in Cameroon are using their art form to help communities cope with traumas left by the ongoing civil war.