Born in 1938, Ishmael Reed is the author of many collections of poems and essays, as well as several novels, and he is also well known for his contributions to jazz and blues music, as both a lyricist ...

In 2024, the Academy of American Poets invited twelve poets to each curate a month of poems. In this short Q&A, Victor ...

As if some little Arctic flower” was originally written in 1890 by Emily Dickinson. The poem would later be published in The ...

A Cry from an Indian Wife” originally appeared in Emily Pauline Johnson’s first volume of poetry, The White Wampum, which was published in 1895 in Boston, London, and Toronto by Lamson, Wolffe and ...

Ofelia Zepeda, a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation of southwestern Arizona, was born in Arizona in 1952. She received a BA, ...

Delayza puts her hand in mine. The seated crowd hinders her view. I lift her above the masses— a butterfly beyond reach. Her irises bloom to the choir and drumbeats rumbling nearby snowflakes. I set ...

“The Yellow Corn” appears in Poems by Charles G. Eastman (Eastman & Danforth, 1848).

Felix Cortes is a poet and activist. He was born in Puerto Rico in 1950 and migrated to New York City when he was two years ...

Popular love poems, from classic to contemporary, to share for weddings and anniversaries, on Valentine’s Day, and year-round. These poems are perfect for to express romantic love, a lovely friendship ...

This evening there is a ruckus on Main St. I lift my head, and see Nancy who just came from The Pride event at the 11th St.

I have said the above words by Joy Harjo so many times during my term as poet laureate of Maine—repeated them to others, repeated them to myself—that I now feel their impression against my heart and ...

Dorsía Smith Silva is the author of In Inheritance of Drowning (CavanKerry Press, 2024). She has received scholarships and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Martha’s Vineyard ...