The poet and activist talks about the precarity that trans, queer, and Afrodescendent people in Cuba face today, and the life ...

The festival will feature panels and discussions from poets Victoria Chang, Carl Phillips and Christian Wiman, student-made ...

These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Reginald Dwayne Betts about his new collection of poems, "Doggerel," a meditation on family, friendship and falling in love.

The new book is a collection of poetry. “I have always tried to write ... “I call him my Viking angel,” Collins said. “He designed the Korean War memorial on the Mall.

The national theme of this year’s Black History Month is “African Americans and Labor,” so this is truly the opportune time to honor Staten Island’s own Black Angels, who dedicated their ...

In the Instagram reel, Naval narrated lines from her poetry book, Black Wind and Other Poems, which make you contemplate on the many facets of life — known and unknown. A milieu of emotions and ...

After Andre "Angel" Melendez was brutally murdered in New York City, his dismembered body parts were put in a box and tossed into the Hudson River, washing up on Staten Island. In the 1980s and '90s, ...

A black center / sinks behind the hills” and, later, from the same poem, “The land returns from betrayal.” I pause and repeat that line: “The land returns from betrayal.” We have all ...

MADISON, Wis. -- Dr. Fabu Phillis Carter is Madison's first African American Poet Laureate. She held that role from 2008 to 2012. The African American scholar received her last degree from the ...

But the day-to-day skill and care they provided New York City’s most stigmatized, isolated patients is what earned the Black Angels their name. “The Black nurses gave me back my dignity ...

Boston kicked off Black History Month on Monday. Mayor Wu and Governor Healey held celebrations in the city full of song, poems, prayer and a call to action. Donald Trump Renews Barack Obama's ...