Robin D. G. Kelley published his pathbreaking history of the Black radical imagination in 2002. Where are we two decades later?

Twenty-five Finalists to contend for National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature

“i gave mine away— / not all, but the greater portion, / some would say.”

Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream—and work—toward a more capacious "we"Finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for PoetryIn her new poetry c...

from "How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton" published by BOA Editions

The Department of English at Rutgers-New Brunswick seeks a tenure-track assistant professor in African American Literature and Culture. We have…

The Department of English is the largest humanities department in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Our faculty st

Best Poetry Books, Best Poetry Books, All Souls Saskia Hamilton, From From: Poems, Monica Youn, The Shared World, Vievee Francis, suddenly, we, Evie Shockley, To 2040, Jorie Graham

Virginia native arrived in Detroit in 1946 and taught for years at Northwestern High School and Eastern Michigan University

the black people left, and took with them their furious hurricanes and their fire-breathing rap songs melting the polar ice caps. they left behind the mining jobs, but took that nasty black lung...

from "The Essential June Jordan" published by Copper Canyon Press

from "How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton" published by BOA Editions

from "Gumbo Ya Ya" published by University of Pittsburgh Press

from "So to Speak" published by Penguin Random House

“I’ve read Neruda, Walcott, Brooks, Lorca and Hayden multiple times — everything they have written. Over and over, and yet I continue to discover something new.”

at 93, you determined to pick up and go—

The moon assumes her voyeuristic perch

from "Negative Money" published by Soft Skull Press

from "Blood of the Air" published by Northwestern University Press

the small begin of i / in to look 

My parents never thought they would have to lay their son, my brother, down into the earth. … Natalie Diaz needs your support for Support for Mino Diaz Family

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has appointed Ada Limón to serve a two-year second term as the nation’s 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.

The Department of English is the largest humanities department in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Our faculty st

The Department of English is the largest humanities department in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Our faculty st

For nothing I ploughed thirty years, / fed strangers who knocked at my door, / fed tax collectors.

The Department of English is the largest humanities department in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Our faculty st

Read a micro-conversation with the author here. After I left, we hung it in the sky so everyone can see what Black women have done for the world. Against our […]

from Southern Humanities Review

eenie meenie minie moe

When I open the door, I smile and wave to people who only

from Bear Review

Our review of Ed Roberson's "MPH and Other Road Poems."

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Nov. 10 signed legislation that will enable adjunct professors in the Garden State to collect unemployment insurance benefits. The new law was met with praise from AFT...

from "More Truly and More Strange: 100 Contemporary Self-Portrait Poems" published by Persea Books