Fittingly enough, it’s a proper old-school sonnet, orderly and elegant ... my works” is part of a sequence. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was a modern master of the form.

Poetry Out Loud allows high school students from across the country to participate in a dynamic poetry recitation competition ...

The traditional epicenter of the city’s Black community has been upended in recent years by the arrival of thousands of ...

Sarwar is a writer, artist and community activist who shares Altadena poet laureate honors with writer Lester Graves Lennon.

The job of a poet laureate is to engage Illinoisans in poetry, with each poet laureate given a small stipend to enact that ...

Knapp is a senior at Blair High School and Rivera is a freshman at ... where he met poet and writer Gwendolyn Brooks in 1970. “She was beyond generous in her compliments of my work, going ...

And through it all, within the last few years, Dittmer has managed to imprint her own language on perhaps the two most ...