celebrated Black beauty and Black love in “Poem—To the Black Beloved.” Hughes, of course, was a Black poet and activist. He rose to fame during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s ...

Nikki Giovanni’s “Ego Tripping” is a celebration of Black heritage, strength, and identity. First published in 1972 in her ...

Like some of the best Black poets throughout history, Hughes provides rich insights with poetry about love, race and common struggles. And although his poems have a brutal side to them ...

It's an anthology by Black poets called ... So the next section of# the book is going to be love poems. And then,## of course, you go out into the world and# you're dealing with all the craziness ...

His most famous poems included "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (renounced ... People devoured his weekly political column in the Chicago Defender, a Black newspaper. Emily Dickinson wrote ...

This Black History Month, Blue Peter has commissioned some special poems by black spoken word artists to celebrate black history, but also to challenge us to think about everything we've learned ...

Poe’s writing career began in the early 1820s with the release of “Tamerlane and Other Poems,” a collection ... including the dreadful black room. The Masque of the Red Death is an allegory ...

Find out little known details on jack-o'-lanterns, trick-or-treating, candy and other Halloween-inspired topics.

Two-time Emmy-nominated and award-winning spoken word artist Trey Baker shares how he uses poetry to empower the youth.

The memoir details the life story of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court.

From a touching memoir about family to a fantasy-inspired bookstore, WBUR literature writer Katherine Ouellette shares a ...

Pair this poem with some sweet love messages to show your one true love just how much they mean to you. . . . . . . . Even if ...