poetry
Remembering poet, Spanish Civil War vet Ramon Durem
November 3, 2015Although of mixed heritage, he identified as African American, and his poems impacted the Black Power movement as a cultural inspiration.
Read moreToday in history: Chilean communist poet Pablo Neruda wins Nobel Prize
October 21, 2015Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams."
Read moreHispanic Heritage Month: A Costa Rican poet honors Carlos Bulosan
October 1, 2015Carlos Sampayan Bulosan (1913-1956) was a class-conscious English-language Filipino novelist and poet.
Read moreToday in history: A Chinese poem for autumn
September 23, 2015On this first day of autumn, we offer a quiet moment of reflection penned 80 years ago.
Read moreToday in history: “BaddDDD” black poet Sonia Sanchez is born
September 9, 2015Since the 1970s Sanchez has published a steady stream of poetry books and plays.
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