To help push those gates open even further, National Black Poetry Day, which falls on Oct. 17 each year, was founded in 1985. The day is as much about bringing awareness to Black poets as it is a ...

Trust us: You will be thinking about their words long after you finish reading their poetry. And just like novels, memoirs and other books by Black authors, you won’t be able to put their poetry ...

As a white North Shore teenager in the early ’70s, Lauri Ramey didn’t fit the profile of a black poetry aficionado, but that didn’t stop her from developing an interest in the genre.

As a space for Black NU students to express themselves artistically, Brown started the Black Poetry Society with a desire to bring poetry to the broader campus community, allowing people to ...

In honor of National Black Poetry Day, here are 20 contemporary Black poets we think you should be reading all year round. Every year, the mainstream literary gates seem to open just that much ...