Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is credited as one of the first influential Black poets in America. A graduate of Howard University, he was ...

“Have I ever told you I like teenagers?” begins an entry on my Substack. It was written after an interaction with a teenager in the poetry aisle of a local bookstore. For those of you who follow my ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Aurélia Durand / For The Times) In December 1990, poet Cornelius Eady, now 71, was feeling dispirited by the literary world. He’d ...

Nikki Giovanni died this week, at the age of eighty-one, as that rarest of things: a best-selling poet. Her work burst onto the scene in the nineteen-sixties already fully formed—it was concerned, as ...