Editor's note: This story contains poems with curse words. To celebrate National Poetry Month — which wraps up today — All Things Considered spoke with three poets, Hanif Abdurraqib, Yanyi, and Franny ...

Two remarkable new poetry collections are reshaping conversations about Black American identity and experience. Brad Walrond’s Every Where Alien and Cheryl Clarke‘s Archive of Style: New and Selected ...

Mona Kareem’s poetry reading on Saturday felt like a gathering of old friends. The homey atmosphere of the Center for the Humanities at Tufts, which hosted the event, as well as the elaborate spread ...

“My identity has always been tangled up in the fraught definitions of America’s racism.” So opens Cambridge-based author E. Dolores Johnson’s frank and illuminating memoir “Say I’m Dead: A Family ...

The University of Michigan Slam Poetry Club hosted its final campus performance of the academic year Thursday in the Michigan League basement to an audience of 40 people. The themes of the poems ...

A group of faculty members in the literary arts department discussed how poetry can be a means of processing oppression and struggle while also expressing racial identity and optimism at a “Race & ...

Separated from his homeland in his teens, Craig Santos Perez uses poetry to work through the pains of migration. Perez was born on Guam and grew up in Mongmong, until he and his family moved to ...

Kabal is pleased to announce the release of MOUTHY: Poems In Defense Of Being Loud, Soft, Queer & Undeniable, a powerful new poetry and reflection collection that explores identity, vulnerability, ...

Editor's note:This story contains poems with curse words. To celebrate National Poetry Month — which wraps up today — All Things Considered spoke with three poets, Hanif Abdurraqib, Yanyi, and Franny ...