Lucie Brock-Broido (Concord Poetry Center) The award-winning poet Lucie Brock-Broido  (1956-2018) passed away yesterday at the age of 6...

Today Twitter  (naturally) brought some very good news: one of my poems, "Words," which the brilliant poet and critic Dawn Lun...

February 1 always marks the start of US Black History Month, as well as the birthday of one of the greatest poets this country gave the ...

Kei Miller  SOME DEFINITIONS FOR SONG the speech of birds, as in birdsong, but with exceptions. Pigeons do not sing. Vultures do n...

Back in April in several blog posts on the Northwestern University 's annual spring Writing Festival , I mentioned my participation in...

Here are two poems from the 2005 collection The War Works Hard , which gathers selections from three volumes of poems by the young (1965-) a...

Nikki Giovanni , whom I have spoken about in variously places previously as one of my favorite poets in childhood and adolescence, gave the ...