A new book traces how innovators of punk music interacted with New York School poets such as Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman.
Hurricane Irma devastated the U.S. Virgin Islands, leveling homes, knocking out power, and turning the landscape into a “battered wasteland” where some say media coverage was minimal and help was late to arrive. Now, the islands are under…
Nicole Sealey's new poetry collection asks us if, like the Greek figure of Sisyphus, we can find contentment even when life is difficult and absurd…
Fifty years ago this month, a protest in Detroit turned into a riot, which turned into five days of violence that left dozens dead, thousands arrested and a city engulfed in flames. The poem "They Feed They Lion" chronicles the…
Poet Matthew Zapruder say that we are too often asked to find the "hidden meanings" in poems, as if a poem is a riddle.
"Because We Come From Everything: Poetry & Migration” launched this month with 25 poetry organization in 15 cities.
Their poems explore with tenderness and anxiety the joys and perils of being a father -- especially a black father -- and how to escape the mistakes of past generations.
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