Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the ...

Choosing the right words was a gift that Everett Hoagland, the first Poet Laureate of New Bedford, had and used to create a ...

The album, out on 7/11 from Blue LLama Records interweaves classic poetry with timeless music. We spoke with Harris about the ...

Stephanie Burt discusses the transformative power of queer poetry in her anthology "Super Gay Poems" in an exclusive ...

James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz ...

Local poetry: Smith will discuss their collection “Bluff” and a new compilation of Hughes’ work in St. Paul.

The list of amazing Black writers you should know is long. We’ve narrowed it down to 15 authors, all of whom have written ...

I learned that Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black voters in Miami while researching a story six years ago. In “The Ballad of Sam Solomon,” Hughes documents how Overtown resident Samuel B ...

A new selection of Langston Hughes’s letters shows how the “beloved bard of black America” was caught between the world he was born into and the one his poetry embodied. Reflecting on his career, the ...

Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901 ...