One of America’s most famous poets, Langston Hughes was a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, a huge upsurge in art and literature in the Black American community in the early 20th century.

Of American poets born after the Civil War, Pound and Eliot have the strongest claim on long attention, though both in recent ...

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if ...

Poets Safia Elhillo, Jamila Woods and members of the Stanford Spoken Word Collective shared poems both personal and political ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

The simplicity of his life informed his work. Ascending to fame at a time when Anglo-American poetry was growing increasingly difficult and obscure, Frost set himself apart. A lyric poet inspired ...

Poetry is a vessel for greater understanding in the same way that a voice is a vessel for language,” Price said.

to the poems of Romanian-French poet and Holocaust survivor Paul Celan, to the best verse of the AIDS crisis, like that of American poet and critic Tory Dent. All are poets who lived through times ...

Focusing on how the most vulnerable and minorities face oppression in these countries, the final episode – titled Ultima Fermata (The Last Ride) – serves as an in-depth look at American poverty.