How is it that some of us are privileged and many are not? This subject is at the heart of a new collection of poetry.

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 ...

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

Matthew Arnold’s poems often reflect our search for meaning in life. Arnold’s best buddy at Rugby School and later at Oxford ...

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

Famous poems by Langston Hughes (1902–1967) inspire two exceptional picture books. Continue reading » ...

“I’ve known rivers:/ I’ve known rivers ancient as the world,” Hughes’s poem begins; like the poem, Lewis’s radiant watercolors convey great depth. Rivers all over the world—the Congo ...

Ida B. Wells was a brave journalist and social reformer who helped create the National Association for the Advancement of ...

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

Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black voters in Miami and the Jim Crow era. Tom Dolphens illustration. Tom Dolphens Star file illustration I learned that Langston Hughes wrote a poem about ...

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 ...