To get you started, we’re focusing on 10 of the most powerful Langston Hughes poems. Consider this your introduction to the incredible potency of the celebrated poet’s words and their rhythms.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Black poetry has always been a powerful medium through which African Americans have expressed their pain, joy, struggle, and triumph. From the times of slavery to the present day ...

This past Saturday at Squeaky Wheel, an artist nonprofit organization that provides equipment, resources and education for ...

Winners of the Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize gave a reading of selected poems at the Austin Building’s Stern Lounge on April 10.

Use rhythm, repetition, and rhyme, and rearrange the found words to create your own powerful poem. What if you could write a poem without using your own words? Jeff Kass shows you how to create a ...

At their most radical, these poems feature a streak of powerful transgressions: in the poem about transports to Treblinka, the trains pass an old sign advertising gas for cooking, drawing a painful ...

Each poem has been selected by an incredible woman including Olivia Colman, Annie Lennox and Vanessa Redgrave. Below, Stylist picks five of the most powerful poems in the book, introduced by the ...

Never before have so many children been out of school at the same time. “These powerful poems show the enormous impact coronavirus has had on children’s lives, as well as their strength, resilience, ...

For National Poetry Month, city of Charleston poet laureate AsiahMae is reading a poem every day via a video on Instagram.