Shirin Neshat show at the Broad wrings power, pain and poetry from black-and-white. Tiny calligraphy is written across the skin of many of Shirin Neshat’s portrait subjects.

In an act of resistance, Black people developed a poetry around death that attempted to assign it meaning outside of commerce and biology. Image John Antrobus’s “A Plantation Burial” (1860).

“African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song,” edited by Kevin Young, contains an overwhelming amount of variety and history.

Black Bodies In White Words ... the particular universe that is modern American poetry, ... mind Zora Neale Hurston's 'I feel most colored when I am thrown against a white sharp background.'" ...

Poet and playwright Claudia Rankine is fascinated with stories about the interactions -- both intimate and large scale -- between the races. In her latest book of poetry, “Citizen: An American ...

While white people undeniably dominate The Norton Anthology of Poetry, and may, for all I know, displace some higher-quality poets in the college poetry classes that I have never taken, they’re ...

There was even a liberal white teacher in my high school who suggested to me, straight-faced and with the very best of intentions, that if I was feeling out of place among my fellow black students ...

Poet and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni, a prominent figure during the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and '70s who was dubbed "the Princess of Black Poetry," has died. She was 81. Giovanni ...