The Hawthorne-Longfellow Library is currently in the midst of its annual weeklong celebration of poetry as part of National ...

Worried poetry might put Grandma to sleep too early? We’ve got you covered ... it also celebrated the dignified lives in the Black community. The first stanza is excerpted above, but the full ...

Benry Juno James ‘25 was inspired to write “dear wormwood,” while doing their homework for an intermediate poetry class last fall. Last week, the poem won the H. MacKnight Black Poetry Prize, an award ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of need. Either way, I’d love to know why it matters to you.

For the Black, queer speaker, the possibility of death is a constant companion: “hallelujah! today i rode / past five police cars / & i can tell you about it.” In that poem’s first stanza ...

McKay often wrote in the Jamaican dialect, and while his poetry highlighted socioeconomic inequalities, it also celebrated the dignified lives in the Black community ... be a bit too good at ...

In many ways, the survey has been a long time coming. The museum has collected Johnson’s work, he is old friends with chief ...

to talk poetry with the Observer. She was in her element inside Day 6 Coffee Shop, a busy downtown cafe run by Black entrepreneurs who keep their cozy backroom loaded with books. As we spoke ...

I am constantly reminded and put in my place each time I open a Eugene Weekly, university newspaper, or multiple store circulars and local advertisements that arrive at my door that have not one ...