Maya Angelou sits in her hotel room, reliving her past and writing her autobiography, "I know why the caged bird sings". A ...

The private lives of presidents and princes, romantic affairs, meditations on grief, awkward coming-of-age stories, or an ...

John Flemister, 61, worked the front desk at several residential buildings and was heading home from work Saturday evening ...

That’s how long it takes to read Maya Angelou's “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” out loud. That’s how long a small act of ...

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In a world of complex threats and challenges, the Department of Defense has decided to tackle one of the gravest: a quintessential piece of American literature.

If it’s one thing about Black folks, we know how to party! Another thing: While African American history and culture is ...

But perhaps his least-known endeavor was as a poet. Kilmer was a writer of poetry for much of his adult life, having begun dabbling in the form in his twenties as he studied at The Juilliard ...

A group or individual poem about your family, an aspect of your family or why they are important to you You can submit a poem in written form or as an audio or video clip that is one-minute or less. A ...

In I’ll Tell You When I’m Home (Avid Reader, June), Palestinian poet Hala Alyan braids her experience of motherhood via surrogacy with the legacy of her family’s displacement. “My daughter ...

A convicted drug dealer claims that being deported would damage his career as a poet. Cocaine dealer Evan Holmes, who has 13 convictions for 22 offences, has argued that being sent back to Jamaica ...