Her heritage, as a scion of Boston Brahmins and the mother of biracial children, shaped a discursive verse style that veiled ...

Black Sparrow Press, a shoestring operation he ran out of his home, became one of the highest-profile small publishers in the U.S., championing writers like Charles Bukowski.

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I was never a gangster, I never sold drugs, I never carried a gun... I worked every day since the age of fifteen. I knew my virtues couldn't save me.

Frank Stanford, who killed himself at age 29, died far too young. Thanks to writer James McWilliams, the legendary Arkansas poet's short but colorful life is now documented in a monumental biography.

Hazel and Jewel are local favourites in the Tofield Canada Day parade. “Jewel loves the parade. She just lives for them,” ...

The renaming of a Berlin boulevard that has used a racist term to Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Strasse, after Germany's first African-born scholar, highlights a long struggle to erase symbols of a brutal ...

"As I was growing up, I began to be attracted to a certain kind of man," Lucinda Williams once wrote, "and I would maintain ...

Of the 40 members, or "immortals," as they call themselves, Gonçalves will be the sixth woman to join the academy.

The Prototype Prize short-form category winner traces early 20th-century trans histories through institutional archives and poetry ...

Here are some great choices for fiction, nonfiction, essays, memoir and more to keep you busy through the hot summer months.

Whether exposing injustice, exploring identity, or telling unforgettable stories, these authors write with urgency and beauty.