Photographic slide of Essex Hemphill playing chess, 1981, reversal film and plastic, 5 x 5 cm. Courtesy: © Dr. Ron Simmons ...

Exactly. I mean, in the years that he wasn’t writing poems, he was making furniture and working as a tool- and die-maker, so he had a sense of the materiality of the poems. But some of that is ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Poetry doesn’t generally pay for itself ... was the distinction that was used to decide who would die and who would work under the Nazis. “What does he do? He chainsaws the heads off dead ...

He was writing poems about bees, sex poems with pollen and ... which is just recognizing that every single one of us will die. The human experience of being born and dying is not exceptional.

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em on a multi-day, drunk-driving road trip in middle-class middle of America to find their ...

It is the kind of poem that opens classroom discussions, sparks debate, and, most importantly, refuses to be forgotten. “Kids Who Die” stands among Langston Hughes’ most emotionally potent ...

Creature in an annual race with the slogan “Ready, Steady, Slow!”: five letters.

Hassouna posted her photos on Facebook and Instagram, where she had more than 35,000 followers. Her images documented the ...