“I want to hear an American poem,” Baraka recites in an audio clip that plays during an interlude video at Beyoncé’s Cowboy ...

Why, oh, why, will persons, many of them acute observers and decent verse- makers themselves, continue to write like this on the subject of poets and poetry? Why will they shut their eyes and stub ...

John Lennon wrote a poem using the N-word before he became famous. The former Beatle penned a racist verse during the band’s Hamburg residency in 1961. In the short poem, he uses the inflammatory ...

One of the saddest shows on television resumes tonight, where we are invited to witness the most intimate pain of a dozen ...

But there’s a poem in it called “Old News ... Maybe it goes back to my attitude toward “A” in school. Anybody who’s gone to school knows that sometimes “A” means a lot, and ...

Even as his style has become even more ornate, the subjects he’s been tackling feel increasingly political. See: his latest, ...

This interview with writer Prava Baral explores her journey as a poet, novelist, and academic, highlighting her focus on ...

Donald Trump’s executive order dismantled the federal agencies supporting libraries, museums, minority businesses, and ...

For people concerned about the self-esteem and suicide ideation of those with autism, Kennedy sounded like his goal was to ...

Kate Messner’s “The Trouble With Heroes” charts Finn’s hiking misadventures in the form of the short poems he submits ... these hikes will yield the attitude change the adults around ...

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