The country’s first National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman, made history as the youngest inaugural poet when she recited “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration. She made ...

It may have been over 40 years in the making, but Raymond Keen’s first volume of poetry hardly fails to resound in the here and now. Love Poems for Cannibals, which Keen self-published using the ...

Chinese poetry carved on the wall of the Angel Island Immigration Station in the San Francisco Bay. Text from Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 These lines ...

Walk into the public area of Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport, and you’ll see traditional airport sights: monitors for departures, places to grab coffee and food. But you’ll also see ...

The opening poem of this year’s Magic City Poetry Festival paid reverence to Birmingham’s history. The month-long celebration of the literary art commenced Saturday morning with Alabama poet laureate ...

In "Franklinstein," published this spring, Brooklynite Susan Landers journeys back to her childhood neighborhood of Germantown to learn both its origin story and what she calls the "making of a modern ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires courage, resilience, and to be proud of your culture. This legacy makes ...

Since 1926, February has marked the observance and celebration of black history in the United States — first with a week-long celebration scheduled to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln ...

"We're bringing appreciation back to poetry and the art of spoken word." Rashan Brown thinks of poetry like this: "Imagine closing your eyes, and we're walking down a street, but you don't know what's ...