The fourth Arab Poetry Forum recently took place in Bamako, Mali, under the support of His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is credited as one of the first influential Black poets in America. A graduate of Howard University, he was ...

History ‘The mother of African American literature’: Remembering the poet Phillis Wheatley Peters Though she left a rich paper trail of poems and letters, accounts of her own life were scarce.

As Carretta has put it, Wheatley was “the unofficial poet laureate of the new nation-in-the-making.”. Wheatley was a genius by any standard. Brought to America from Africa in 1761, at 7 years ...

Keorapetse Kgositsile, a South African poet whose writing and activism helped bridge his country’s freedom struggle with the Black Arts movement in the United States, died on Jan. 3 in Johannesburg.

He was born in 1711 and became the first African American poet to be published in the United States. Mills’ Hammon poems will be featured in the library presentations.

Poets Honor the African-American Literary Tradition as Part of Black Artstory Month. All month long, you can celebrate the rich tradition of African-American art in Brooklyn as part of Black Artstory ...