The country’s first National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman, made history as the youngest inaugural poet when she recited “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration. She made ...

The opening poem of this year’s Magic City Poetry Festival paid reverence to Birmingham’s history. The month-long celebration of the literary art commenced Saturday morning with Alabama poet laureate ...

In 250 years of Black poetry, the act of writing is itself a form of protest. It isn't just representing the history of struggle, "it's also enacting it and resisting it," said poet Kevin Young. By ...

Lee Bennett Hopkins gathers poems and milestone facts for every occasion in Days to Celebrate: A Full Year of Poetry, People, Holidays, History, Fascinating Facts, and More, illus. by Stephen Alcorn.

In "Franklinstein," published this spring, Brooklynite Susan Landers journeys back to her childhood neighborhood of Germantown to learn both its origin story and what she calls the "making of a modern ...

Walk into the public area of Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport, and you’ll see traditional airport sights: monitors for departures, places to grab coffee and food. But you’ll also see ...

The poet Constantine Cavafy was a cosmopolitan by both birth and inclination. His parents were Constantinople Greeks of what was then known as “good family”; by the time their youngest son was born in ...