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There is lightness within these downtrodden lives!

A contemporary take on an ancient Arabic form.

Bridging two languages and generations in one intricate poem.

Opening the luminous door in your writing.

The journey from idea to draft.

How line breaks shape meaning.

In May 1998, the critic Michael Brenson organized a symposium at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York at which a number of people in the arts were asked to consider...

Performance is a bothersome word for writerly poets. Performance art, poetry slams, and the like have made the term synonymous with theatricality, a recourse to dramatic, declamatory, and other tactics...

There is singularly nothing that makes a difference a difference in beginning and in the middle and in ending except that each generation has something different at which they are...

Using simple, illuminative paper-cut puppetry, this enchanting video imagines the moment of witness that inspired Gwendolyn Brooks to write her landmark poem, “We Real Cool.”

Created in partnership with Motionpoems, this animated film explores the complex and multifaceted beauty that can be overlooked by unobservant eyes.

Created in partnership with Motionpoems, this animated film explores Rhina P. Espaillat’s meditative poem on the cycle of life and the beauty and wisdom that accompany aging.