The gender-fluid Nigerian diaspora has just lost their most prominent poet. Not to death, but to the revelation “they” never ...

Gibson, who died this week, valued live performance and emotionally resonant language.

Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is credited as one of the first influential Black poets in America. A graduate of Howard University, he was ...

In reading Women in a Golden State, I see my mother in so many of the poems. Sharon Langley’s poem, “I Saw My Mom Today,” ...

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David Gate has a popular following online, but his best poems suggest he’s not entirely comfortable as an influencer.

Gibson was an artist and activist, whose spoken word poetry captivated millions and defied the hyperindividualism that defines this political moment. They and their wife, Megan Falley, are the ...

The medieval writer made puzzling references to a story called "The Song of Wade," which has been lost to history. Only a few ...

Scholars and students have spent nearly a decade documenting and digitizing a vast, first-of-its-kind repository for hundreds ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn has a book coming out next year that reveals how she has been shaped by the power ...

Reid, a poetry teacher in the MFA (Master of Fine Arts) program at Western Colorado University, won the 2023 Donald Justice Poetry Prize for her poetry collection “Ghost Man on Second”, meaning ...

Andrea Gibson, a poet, activist and Colorado Laureate who was the subject of documentary film "Come See Me in the Good Light, ...