The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

In one of her poems, Huang wrote: "Why do you have a low voice, because you keep clean the city day after day; why do you ...

In their new collections, Jazz Money and Elfie Shiosaki tackle pressing themes of time, respect and resistance.

Glorious snow! We moved to northern Michigan in part because we wanted snow. The first few years we got buckets of it. I ...

Czesław Miłosz lost his homeland to a Stalinist regime. What have we Americans valued in our own cultural past that might now ...

Central Illinoisans, I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of explaining to people that I do not live in a cornfield. Okay, ...

Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a ...

Blue corn is an important food to the Navajo people. It’s the title of a new book of poems by Amber McCrary, "Blue Corn ...

Heather Lende, Alaska's previous Writer Laureate, shares a poem read on a cold, dark night during a dinner with friends.

Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

The opera “Primero Sueño” translates Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s poem about the soul’s journey into a musical promenade ...