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 ...

Pop culture and poetry intersect in a new book — “Black Existentialism: Autumn Leaves and Other Space Oddities” — by poet, ...

Lorde eventually became a professor — and had to navigate being a Black, queer woman in white academia, according to the Poetry Foundation. This, however, also contributed to her work: She became ...

That name alone, Tortured Poets Department, “it sort of brings to mind poetry as black berets and a lot of turtlenecks.” Swift, she said, seemed to have the outdated image of poets as ...

Born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, Trethewey begins her story at the beginning—with her parents’ marriage. Her Black mother, Gwendolyn Ann Turnbough, was from Gulfport; her white father ...