The country’s first National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman, made history as the youngest inaugural poet when she recited “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration. She made ...

The opening poem of this year’s Magic City Poetry Festival paid reverence to Birmingham’s history. The month-long celebration of the literary art commenced Saturday morning with Alabama poet laureate ...

Since 1926, February has marked the observance and celebration of black history in the United States — first with a week-long celebration scheduled to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln ...

In "Franklinstein," published this spring, Brooklynite Susan Landers journeys back to her childhood neighborhood of Germantown to learn both its origin story and what she calls the "making of a modern ...

Only three presidents have commissioned a poem for their inauguration ceremonies: John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton (who had two), and Barack Obama. For his first swearing-in, Obama called on Elizabeth ...

Every aspect of our literature is in need of change; neither new subjects nor elaborating on an exhausted concept and expressing it differently will suffice. It's not enough to experiment with new ...

The back cover of Ko-Hua Chen’s “Decapitated Poetry,” translated into English by Wen-Chi Li and Colin Bramwell, reads: “‘Decapitated Poetry’ was the first explicitly queer book of poems published in ...

Two Birmingham arts organizations are pairing with the National Park Service to host an afternoon of poetry readings along the Birmingham Civil Rights Trail. This weekend, St. Paul United Methodist ...