April is National Poetry Month. I compiled some of my (and my late stepfather's) poems in an E -Book collection entitled Melodies of the Heart: Poems of Life & Love. Nearly 100 poems.

The Black Crowes reignite their passion for rock on 'Happiness Bastards' : World Cafe : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast The Atlanta rock band return with their first album in over a decade.

With words that pulse with vulnerability, sensuality, retrospection, and joy, a gifted collective of Black queer poets are crafting literary works that boldly reflect the fullness of Black queer life ...

“How it went with the women,” Martin Amis’s phrase for what most straight men are likely to contemplate in the evenings of their lives, would have made an ideal alternative subtitle for the 50-minute ...

The anthology of African-American nature poetry features work by contemporary writers, and writers like 18th century poet Phillis Wheatley. Camille T. Dungy, the editor of the collection, says the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The two poems below were written before the killing of George Floyd but were both responses to similar ...

Nefertite Nguvu’s latest film “In The Morning” is a revealing look at nine friends and their search for love and happiness.

C.D. Wright has published 13 collections of poetry and prose. "Re: Happiness, in pursuit thereof" is taken from her most recent book, "Rising, Falling, Hovering" (Copper Canyon, 2008), which in ...

April is National Poetry Month. I compiled some of my (and my late stepfather's) poems in an E -Book collection entitled Melodies of the Heart: Poems of Life & Love. Nearly 100 poems.

Unlike Larkin, whose alleged misogyny has been widely discredited, Eliot demonized women with lurid particularity. Analyzing the psychological provenance of female-phobic poems like “Hysteria” and ...