The opening poem of this year’s Magic City Poetry Festival paid reverence to Birmingham’s history. The month-long celebration of the literary art commenced Saturday morning with Alabama poet laureate ...
In 250 years of Black poetry, the act of writing is itself a form of protest. It isn’t just representing the history of struggle, “it’s also enacting it and resisting it,” said poet Kevin Young. By ...
Where: South Hill Public Library, 3324 S. Perry St. Cost: Free and open to the public For Stephen Pitters, it’s all about evolution. In 1985, he started the Spokane Open Poetry Association. When that ...
Chinese poetry carved on the wall of the Angel Island Immigration Station in the San Francisco Bay. Text from Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 These lines ...