Poet and NC State assistant professor Diamond Forde released her second collection, "The Book of Alice," on0. It's a ...
The Indianapolis Recorder is inviting local students to participate in our Black History Month Student Poetry and Essay ...
Barbadian-born poet known as Empress Poetry has spent decades navigating life in the U.S. without legal status. Now she's ...
A feminist historian argues William Shakespeare did not write his famous plays and sonnets. The real author was a black ...
Shakespeare was actually a black Jewish woman, new book claims - Feminist historian identifies Tudor poet Emilia Bassano as ...
William Shakespeare was a “black Jewish woman”, according to a new book. It claims that the truth of Shakespearean authorship has been hidden by centuries of “Western-centric and Eurocentric ideology” ...
Poet Phyllis Wheatley, born in 1753, was freed on this day in 1773. Kidnapped in Africa and sold as a slave when she was only ...
On the day Griffiths married author Salman Rushdie, her longtime best friend died unexpectedly. Eleven months later, Rushdie ...
In 1761, Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of ...
Wisława Szymborska. Ecco, July 7 ($18 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-06-349491-6) Showcasing works that deal with intellectual and existential questions, this collection also includes Szymborska’s 1996 Nobel ...