In an effort to keep the creative endeavors and spirit of late African American poet Langston Hughes alive, HarperCollins recently released 'Melodies of the Weary Blues,' a picture book anthology ...

What I know is that I don’t want it to be poetic. The time has passed when my poetry was poetic—if in fact my poetry was ever ...

A story she was told inspired verse in Amina Hasan.

The award-winning poet, whose forthcoming book, "Night Owl," will be published in March, will participate in two talks during ...

Sasha Stiles turned GPT-2 experiments into a self-writing poem at a Museum of Modern Art installation—and a new way to think about text-generating AI optimization ...

YWCA Evanston/North Shore hosted its second annual open mic poetry reading titled “The Soul of Black Poetry” on Wednesday evening. The Black History Month program focused on poetry centering the Black ...

Amanda Gorman, a poet and activist who in 2021 made history as the youngest poet ever to read at a presidential inauguration, debuted a new poem on the third night of the Democratic convention ...

Chris Bullard, a retired judge living in Philadelphia, is author of the poetry chapbooks Continued (Grey Book Press, 2020), ...

The Academy of American Poets gives prizes to university and college students. One of them is Lauren Chumbley.

Activist and poet Amanda Gorman, who was the country's first ever National Youth Poet Laureate, recited an original poem before Sunday's Super Bowl game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay ...