The Poet Empress” asks readers to sit with contradiction and to consider the cost of speaking clearly in a world determined ...

Jaylene Clark Owens, a Philadelphia-based actor and poet, has released her new children’s book, “A Black Girl and Her Braids,” published by Penguin Random House. The book is an extension of her poem ...

Warning: This story contains a mention of attempted suicide. A literary magazine is printing a previously little-known work by the novelist Raymond Chandler — and it's not a hard-boiled detective ...

Marcus Amaker, a well-known Charleston poet, will share his heart-felt poem about the tragic church shooting in June during A&E’s “Conversations on Race in America.” Marcus Amaker, a Charleston poet ...

April is National Poetry Month, and this year it's taking on some new resonance, with most of the world stuck indoors, anxious for the future and antsy about the present. Poems can be a lot of things ...

Senegalese author and feminist Mariama Bâ (pictured) is famous for her French-language novels “So Long a Letter” and “Scarlet Song.” But thanks to recent research by Associate Professor Tobias Warner, ...

Dec. 3—Ariana Pimentel adroitly blended English and Spanish, as well as history with contemporary immigration, and her resulting poem was named a state winner for Young Georgia Authors. "I was ...