Revered Black queer poet and activist Essex Hemphill’s literary works have finally returned to print in a newly released ...

It’s the time of year when my students write love poems. This arrival always surprises me—as spring’s green shocks after months of winter gray—but it shouldn’t. It’s as predictable as ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly called The Independent. “On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in ...

The poem combines Lochhead’s memories of Hogmanay ... Nothing feels quite as bad as when love goes wrong. If that’s how you’re feeling, Valentine’s Day is just the reminder you don ...