New poetry: Alia Kobuszko; John F Deane; Ruth Carr; and Tom Paulin’s razor-sharp return

Dream Latitudes is experimental in the best way; not showy or esoteric for the sake of it. Instead, this book creates the ...

Quote of the day by Maya Angelou: ‘You may trod me in the very dirt but still, like dust, I'll rise’

Maya Angelou's quote from her poem “Still I Rise” is a vehement assertion of self identity, truth and dignity, in the face of discrimination and falsehood.

Literary world mourns loss of Renee Nicole Good’s poetry

Minneapolis poet laureate Junauda Petrus was reading her poem “Ritual on How to Love Minneapolis Again” to students in a ...

Alabama city’s new poet laureate wants to put spotlight on youth

Mobile enters 2026 with a new poet laureate, and it is a figure who has loomed large on the city’s spoken-word scene for 20 ...
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Measuring the 1930s’ Harlem With Half and Half of a Dream By Tares Oburumu

It is then sayable, that post-colonial Nigeria is Harlem of the 1930s rebuilt from the ruins of a history that was strangulation, rather than a series of events that progressed geometrically. And Nimi ...

She was supposed to be the first woman I slept with – until she said a name

One of my friends, Natasha, and I became regulars at a queer poetry night – which is where I first saw Sarah, on the other ...

Quote of the day by Renee Nicole Good: 'Life is merely...' - Braveheart's poem tells profound truth about human birth, death. Here's how

Renee Nicole Good also won one of Old Dominion's most prestigious accolades, the American Academy of American Poets Prize.

George Saunders Says Ditching These Three Delusions Can Save You

The celebrated author on the challenges of being kind, the benefits of meditation and the reality check of death.