The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

Performance poet Sophia Thakur has been featured ... Part of my work was about saying, “Look, we are also here, we are also black, we are also women.’ The work can be very tiring to keep ...

She also edited a groundbreaking anthology of Black women poets, “Night Comes Softly,” and helped found a publishing cooperative that promoted works by Gwendolyn Brooks and Margaret Walker ...

She also edited a groundbreaking anthology of Black women poets, “Night Comes Softly,” and helped found a publishing cooperative that promoted works by Gwendolyn Brooks and Margaret Walker among ...