That's one of the key questions behind Derrick Harriell's latest collection of poetry, Come Kingdom. Harriell is a Milwaukee poet who has lived and taught in Mississippi for the past eleven years.

In the quiet hours of Dec. 9, 2024, American poetry lost one of its most defiant and distinctive voices. Nikki Giovanni, the “Princess of Black Poetry,” who transformed the landscape of ...

Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.

Though she is a published poet and an award-winning short story writer, Moraa had never attended the NIBF until last year. The 2023 NIBF edition was different. For the first time, there was a ...

Maine’s poet laureate, Julia Bouwsma, speaks Thursday at the Great Falls Forum in the Callahan Room at the Lewiston Public Library. Bouwsma read several poems, including one she wrote when she ...

Sonia Sanchez, renowned poet and social activist, has been announced as the keynote speaker for Ivy Tech Community College Kokomo’s 2025 “Doing the Dream” events. The annual event, now in ...

While immigration is a subject of some of the most intense political debates in this country, inaugural poet Richard Blanco says it also drives his art. He shares his journey of becoming an American.

In his first collection of verse in over a decade, he applies the lessons of his successful, self-conscious prose. The Poor Poet, a painting by Carl Spitzweg (1808–1885). Who is Ben Lerner ...

Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem: Dressmaker and Poet, Myra Viola Wilds Nancy Johnson James, illus. by Diana Ejaita. Abrams, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-951836-53-5 ...

San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg stands with the city's newest Poet Laureate Eddie Vega. "I think it’s our job as poets to foster and maintain accessibility in every sense of the word — that ...