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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

This weekend, the basement walls of Alumnae Hall were plastered with photographs of personal items, animated videos and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alabama poet laureate Ashley M. Jones will be the keynote speaker this week at the Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium in ...

Performance poet Lemn Sissay has said he wants his new piece to mark Black History Month for Manchester City to be a work ...