The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

Belfast-born writer Michael Longley has been remembered as “one of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced” following his death aged 85. Tributes have been paid to the poet, described as ...

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One of literary history’s most famous love poems ... helped redefine modernist free-verse poetry. His short lines (unconventional at the time) and rejection of uppercase spelling pushed ...

The Country Without a Post Office (1997) in particular, is a deeply evocative and politically charged collection of poetry that grapples with the devastation in Kashmir during the 1990s insurgency, ...

The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the ...

Putting words on paper takes courage and confidence for new authors. The Massillon Library writing group and others help ...

This year's San Miguel Writers' Conference and Literary Festival promises to be bigger, better and more star-studded than ...

Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

The father of an old, estranged fiancé of mine once asked me why I raised our daughters Catholic. The implication was that religious faith seemingly clashed with my long-haired, hippy façade and ...

CIA veteran Martin Petersen offers a critical review of The Anaconda in the Chandelier: Writings on China by Perry Link.