Zaniyah and Jamya, sisters from North Little Rock with dreams of becoming a veterinarian and engineer, often recite the poem “Hey Black Child.” The poem is by Useni Eugene Perkins, and they hold it ...

F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

The lines kept playing in my mind, like a song. I asked a few people, neighbors, street sellers, drivers, ’What are you going ...

A Phillips Collection show places the work of Washington, D.C., poet Essex Hemphill alongside artwork his life and writing inspired.

At the most extreme, some forms of constrained writing are even more self-limiting and end up being very, very constrained ...

A standout of the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, Simón Mesa Soto’s 'A Poet' manages to successfully mesh together ...