Of American poets born after the Civil War, Pound and Eliot have the strongest claim on long attention, though both in recent ...

During Black History Month, the black community honours black poets' profound impact on literature and culture. African-American poets have left an indelible mark on American poetry, and their ...

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

Poets Safia Elhillo, Jamila Woods and members of the Stanford Spoken Word Collective shared poems both personal and political ...

We may earn a commission from your purchases. As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well.

Although she’s now one of the most celebrated American poets of the 19th Century, Emily Dickinson was not well known in her time; of her 1,800 known poems written, only 10 were published while ...

Poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher, Elizabeth Alexander is the author of four books of poems, The Venus Hottentot, Body of Life, Antebellum Dream Book, and American Sublime, which was one of ...

Poetry is a vessel for greater understanding in the same way that a voice is a vessel for language,” Price said.

Gwendolyn Brooks was an African American poet whose imagination, conscience and passion for words made her the first black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize, in 1950. Narrated by her daughter Nora Brooks ...