If we don’t meet this moment with intention, we will leave our most vulnerable students behind,” writes community college ...

Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the ...

The oldest Black-owned bookstore in Kansas City will keep its legacy alive as it closes this chapter, becoming a community ...

Derrick Barnes felt there wasn't wide enough representation of Black people in the books he read as a kid. The Kansas City native's new picture book, “I Got You,” is his latest effort to write ...

Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

Berkeley author and retired physician Marc Sapir’s new book boasts thoughtful narratives about elders nearing the end of ...

Chip Williford, the director and co-host of the Riverhead-based Poetry Street, has been named Suffolk County Poet Laureate — the first African American ever named to the post in Suffolk.

I have read so many great books this year that I knew it was time to make my list of the best historical fiction books of ...

From heartfelt 19th-century letters to Swiftie bracelets, a UC Berkeley American studies course looks at the ways we’ve found ...

The words of these famous Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America Black poets you need to know There are so many types of poetry in the world, ...

Appreciating poetry doesn't have to take a lot of time. As these moving short poems prove, you can work poetry into your daily life.

The City of Travelers Rest is honoring the memory of Revolutionary War heroine Laodicea “Dicey” Langston with a life-sized statue in the heart of downtown.