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There is a darkness in Mawiyah Bomani’s latest writing, Thick Air, with its poems that evoke the shadows and shades of American history at its darkest. When Bomani won the Critical Mass 8 Best of Show ...

AMERICAN POETRY now belongs to a subculture. No longer part of the mainstream of artistic and intellectual life, it has become the specialized occupation of a relatively small and isolated group.

A rare constancy of the human experience is poetry. No matter how much people degrade each other in the quest for power, profit, or a false sense of security, and irrespective of how far some try to ...

NO ONE EXPECTED the huge response that "Can Poetry Matter?" generated, especially not its author. I wrote the essay to address -- as directly and candidly as possible -- the increasing cultural ...

Let’s take as a starting point that “the Earth is moving yet again.” It is shifting, unstable, reactive; it’s different one year, or minute, to the next. In an age of rising seas and mass extinctions, ...

Chances are you had to study Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” in school to examine why it’s a great poem. It’s just as likely you’ve never read William McGonagall’s “Tay Bridge Disaster,” widely ...

When Prof. Robyn Schiff sat at the information desk at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, she felt as if, “I was living my life at the center of the world.” Nearly 30 years later, Schiff ...

SHREWSBURY — A year ago, an attempt by a group of students to dump the high school's mascot divided this town. Now, a poem read by a student during a Black history assembly is doing the same. And at ...

A former Bakersfield College student who drew national attention in 2019 when he read his poem titled “Dear America” that was critical of the country’s immigration policies is now a suspect in a ...

Kate Baer is no stranger to the internet. She found her voice online by documenting the most intimate parts of motherhood on her social platforms and publishing stories with the Huffington Post. In ...