Both the lyrical poems and artful monotypes in this handsomely designed volume explore images in black and white. A dandelion's "head is filled with/ winged seeds—her fluffy/ cloud-white dreams held/ ...

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 ...

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 ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - Dr. Philip Kolin, University of Southern Mississippi distinguished professor of English emeritus, has commemorated Black History Month 2024 in new poetry. The collection, ...

A guide to some of the undervalued 20th-century works that testify to the richness of the Black American literary archive. By Adam Bradley Adam Bradley, a T writer, is a professor and the author of ...

The poems “Black Girl Magic” and “Redbone Shames the Devil” by Mahogany L. Browne, who holds and MFA from Pratt, were studied in the research project “101 Black Women Poets in Mainly White and Mainly ...

The brutalities of American life have left deep scars in our literature, few more evident than the long absence of African American poets. Among the exceptions, at least two black poets published work ...

October 17, 2025, is black poetry day. In fact, it's the 40th anniversary of when it began in 1985 to honor Jupiter Hammon.

Clint Smith began writing the poems in his new collection, Above Ground, when his wife was pregnant with their first child. The poems reflect the joy and fear that accompanies fatherhood. Some are fun ...

Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who rose from borrowing money to release her first book to decades as a literary celebrity sharing her blunt and conversational takes on ...

Poet and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni, a prominent figure during the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and '70s who was dubbed "the Princess of Black Poetry," has died. She was 81. Giovanni ...