These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

From collisions of art, desire, religion, racism and moments of “transgressive joy, queer joy, and Black joy,” Clark locates ...

Sometimes reading poetry can feel exhilarating, like you are finally seeing and being seen. Other times it’s a slog that ...

For several years, a quote allegedly from Mahatma Gandhi spread widely across the internet in which he purportedly shared his ...

Anyone misguided enough to think that poetry is just for the effete and the elite ought to take a look at this collection by Richard Tavenner, poet and electrician. Tavenner writes that he has been a ...

FOX 9 sat down with the parents of an 11-year-old girl who was killed in a crash in Independence last week. They said her legacy will live on in many ways.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Agee is best known for his novels and screenplays, but a new volume from The Works of James Agee series restores his reputation as a poet.

Pinky The Poet pulled up to Fresh Friday to perform "Societal Mechanisms" and to talk about what brought her there from ...

And the striking of the guitar percussively, heartbeat of the bygone pounding and slapping like it was the only thing on earth he cared ... onto the narrow sill of our own lives, my family ...

Black students at Ohio State founded Our Choking Times, a publication designed to critique the university’s lack of diversity and provide a platform for marginalized voices. More than 50 years later, ...

Revered Black queer poet and activist Essex Hemphill’s literary works have finally returned to print in a newly released ...

"Y'all" also may be the result of altering words in poetry. Jackson State University English Professor ... uneducated' or ...