Where: South Hill Public Library, 3324 S. Perry St. Cost: Free and open to the public For Stephen Pitters, it’s all about evolution. In 1985, he started the Spokane Open Poetry Association. When that ...

In the wake of Malcolm X’s assassination in the winter of 1965, Black and brown poets like Amiri Baraka, Miguel Algarin, and Sonia Sanchez consciously rejected effete paper poems for those that sought ...

Laura Apol does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

In 250 years of Black poetry, the act of writing is itself a form of protest. It isn't just representing the history of struggle, "it's also enacting it and resisting it," said poet Kevin Young. By ...

Selected by Paul B. Janeczko, illus. by Chris Raschka. Candlewick, $17.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6963-8 Janeczko and Raschka’s stellar fourth poetry collaboration, following A Poke in the I and other ...

The opening poem of this year’s Magic City Poetry Festival paid reverence to Birmingham’s history. The month-long celebration of the literary art commenced Saturday morning with Alabama poet laureate ...

The familiar cycle of denouncements and defenses of poetry never seems to have much to do with anyone's actual experience of, say, John Ashbery. You know these pieces from highbrow magazines: The ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

The country’s first National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman, made history as the youngest inaugural poet when she recited “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration. She made ...

Darwin. Mutation. Evolution. Poetry. Which word doesn't fit? At Darwinian Poetry (www.codeasart.com/poetry/darwin.html), they all do. The goal of this new site is to ...