It’s just really, really emotional and inspirational for me all at the same time,” said Lovely, a ninth-grade poet.

Boston-based writer Porsha Olayiwola is the spring artist-in-residence for Michigan State University’s Womxn of Color ...

Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...

Spoken word artist K Love The Poet discusses her journey to finding purpose, performance with MC Lyte, and how poetry became her vehicle for empowerment.

My son is in fifth grade and has been begging for a phone before the school year ends. I know he is feeling left out, but I'm also concerned about the repercussions of social media. Because I was ...

The Union County Board of County Commissioners, in collaboration with the Union County Shade Tree Advisory Board, has announced the winners of this year’s Arbor Day Poetry Contest. Each year, in ...

For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?

Andrew Chi Keong Yim has a fixation with place. Whether it’s in wandering the fluorescent halls of a mall or by interrogating the role that Asian Americans have in settling on native soil in the ...

The French author’s award-winning memoir, “Sad Tiger,” is a richly literary and starkly shattering account of childhood ...

April 4, was my grandmother’s birthday. If they were still alive, my grandfather would have written her a poem, as he did for her every birthday, every wedding anniversary ...

A friend recently sent me an internet meme with the message, “In the end it’s all about the person you want to send new music ...