An author is suing Busboys & Poets, alleging that the cafe has engaged in discriminatory behavior and falsely advertised ...

Nikki Giovanni, one of the key figures of the Black Arts Movement, has died at 81. Giovanni was a poet, essayist, children’s book author, activist and professor. Her death in Blacksburg, Virginia, on ...

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 ...

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 ...

DAYTON — News Center 7 continues to highlight Black History Month. On Thursday, News Center 7′s Xavier Hershovitz spoke with Poet David matthews. (He spells his name in lowercase because he says, “I ...

Giovanni was a one-of-a-kind writing talent who tackled everything from racism to love to life and death in her works. An author of more than 25 books, Giovanni was a natural-born writer and performer ...

There are many types of poetry in the world—from love poems that will make you swoon to nature poems and protest poems that examine the world around us in very different ways. But all poems, even ...

Kwame Alexander is an award-winning poet, a bestselling author of 38 books, most recently of "Why Fathers Cry At Night," and now he has curated a new collection of poems by other contemporary poets, ...

Black Repertory Company is bringing a powerful fusion of movement, music, and poetry to the Kirkwood Performing Arts Center this weekend by way of a legendary force in dance. On November 21 and 22, ...