Yesterday, the Publishing Triangle, in collaboration with the bookstore Bureau of General Services-Queer Division (BGSQD), held a marvelous ...

Punks  has been out roughly two and a half weeks, but it has begun to receive some very good, thoughtful reviews. They include  a fine revie...

It's official! Punks , my new book of poems is officially in the world! You can order a copy directly from my publisher The Song Cave , ...

Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths In a marvelous move, the new Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden , has just named Tracy K. Smith  (197...

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) One hundred years ago today, in Topeka, Kansas , Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born to Keziah Wims Brooks...

Within the last few weeks, two major Black poets, Mari Evans  (1919/1923?-2017) and Derek Walcott (1930-2017), have passed. Unsurprisi...

Jay Wright at Rutgers- New Brunswick, 2006 In place of a prose post about the Fourth of July , I thought I'd cede the space to a p...

Yesterday I learned that Michael S. Harper (March 18, 1938 - May 7, 2016), one of the major poets of his generation, a profoundly influenti...

One of the treats of this year's Inter/National Poetry Month  is the publication of a new collection of poems by  James Baldwin  (192...

Amiri Baraka (at right), at NYU, May 3, 2014 "What will be / the sacred words?" - Amiri Baraka A great light, a fire, a f...

Wanda Coleman at Woodland Pattern's 25th Anniversary Celebration, Milwaukee (© Woodland Pattern) There is so much to say when a gr...

I plan to post a short note, with photos doing most of the talking, about this past weekend's Dark Room Collective  reunion at Poets ...

Sonia Sanchez (courtesy of AALBC.com) Earlier this semester, as part of my undergraduate literature class on The Black Arts Movement ,...

It's National Poetry Month , and also one of the busiest in the year for me (giving exams, reading theses, etc.), but I am aiming to po...