This exploration of famous Black poems and their writers highlights the enduring power of poetry ... Hughes uses the metaphor of a staircase to represent the mother’s difficult life journey, ...

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, ...

Anything Frieda Hughes writes is of interest. As the child of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, she immediately drops us into the fateful family life of two of the 20th Century’s most influential poets.

Generally, I write columns in the third person, but that stance would be false in writing about Naomi Shihab Nye, who has been a friend for 40 years, or long before she became “famous” — an ...

One of my favorite poets is William Carlos Williams, the imagist poet who believed a poem could be like a painting — words that provoke a picture and initiate thought. Here’s his most famous ...