KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Black poets and other writers read their work Thursday night at ‘A Nation in Exile’ event at 21c Museum at the Kansas City Hotel. “I just think it’s important for every single ...

With a career that spanned the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and the Black Arts movement of the '60s, Langston Hughes was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Aurélia Durand / For The Times) In December 1990, poet Cornelius Eady, now 71, was feeling dispirited by the literary world. He’d ...

Northwestern’s Black Poetry Society hosted its third annual “Speak On It” event Saturday evening, bringing together poets from across the Chicago area to share their work. This year’s event, held at ...

James Madison University’s fourth decennial Furious Flower Poetry Conference is scheduled for Sept. 18-21. The landmark conference will also include a banquet on Wednesday, September 18 that will ...

Black Poetry Day does more than fill a spot on the calendar; it serves as a reminder that poetry has launched movements, created community, challenged power, and given poets a lane to voice their ...

Boris ‘Bluz’ Rogers: We want to remind the city that we are definitely, like, glad we're here. We are glad that we got to experience what the city has to offer and everything that the city gives us ...

In honor of National Black Poetry Day, here are 20 contemporary Black poets we think you should be reading all year round. Every year, the mainstream literary gates seem to open just that much wider ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kwame Alexander about This Is The Honey — an anthology of contemporary Black poets that he curated. Kwame Alexander is an award-winning poet, a bestselling author of 38 ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

In December 1990, poet Cornelius Eady, now 71, was feeling dispirited by the literary world. He’d attended the Assn. of Writers & Writing Programs conference in Denver that year and felt like he was ...