That is particularly true for Black poets, who write about myriad topics ... and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the ...

RELATED: Gwendolyn Brooks: The poet who illuminated the black experience In honor of the holiday, we rounded up some of our favorite quotes from some of the most prominent black poets in history.

On this day celebrated poet and activist ... “I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.” “A world I dream where black or white, whatever race you ...

In 1973’s Modern Black Poets: A Collection of Critical ... Here are 20 inspiring quotes from Langston Hughes. “In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything ...

By Jerald Walker WHO WILL PAY REPARATIONS ON MY SOUL ... poet and scholar Fred Moten; and composes an “open letter” to the R&B artist D’Angelo, whose 2014 album, “Black Messiah ...

If that song is all you know of Scott-Heron’s work, you might assume he was like other radical black poets of the ‘60s ... especially on “Rivers of My Fathers.” When Scott-Heron hits ...

Poet Bingham-Risher (Starlight & Error) mines the experiences of Black writers in this jovial mix of memoir, essay, and homage to her literary “guiding voices.” Lyrical essays elucidate the ...