In 1972, after four years of teaching English at Berkeley High’s ninth-grade West Campus, I quit. Cleaned off my bulletin boards and returned to Arizona. Packed away my experiences and sealed ...

With words that pulse with vulnerability, sensuality, retrospection, and joy, a gifted collective of Black queer poets are ...

Bimal Roy's 'Devdas', a 1955 classic, is a poignant masterpiece of Indian cinema. Dilip Kumar's portrayal of a doomed lover remains unmatched.

Gwendolyn Brooks finds herself, at 74, traveling in the Land beyond the Magazines, giving poetry readings and conducting writers’ workshops throughout the academic year. Brooks, Poet Laureate of ...

black and white is beautiful. ask hyuna swanson, photographer from korea. better still, take a look at her shots of the tipu fort. you'll fall in love with black and white, as she did years ago ...

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.

Vasudev went on to create the book cover for Ramanujan’s first collection of poems Hokkulalli Hoovilla (No Flower in the Navel), and he used a dark gray background with Kannada lettering in white.

These poems and illustrations illuminate simple moments—"snow-white blossoms" of popcorn escaping from a pot, a black cat basking near white lace curtains—with remarkable sensitivity and insight.

Furthermore, it becomes clear via the text that these and many other Black abolitionists aspired to a more universal freedom than the white abolitionist movement was willing to fight for.

Editor’s note: This week, for National Poetry Month, we’re featuring 37 up-and-coming black poets who we expect do amazing work over the next decade. We ...

Ramey specializes in 20th Century contemporary American poetry and has been teaching black students about black poetry for 15 years. Students ask her almost daily why she, a white woman, chose to ...

Author of more than 25 books, she was a born confessor and performer whom fans came to know well from her work, her readings and other appearances.