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Released last month, In the Company of Russell Atkins pays homage to one of Cleveland's literary giants. "During high school, Atkins was turned on to poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley,...

Entropy is doing some great work today, sharing "poems for coping"; and editor Janice Lee has also shared an "impromptu poetry packet," which you can download as a PDF! The...

How did a Langston Hughes poem get a full page placement in the New York Times yesterday? The team at FishbowlNY offers very thorough analysis as to the origins of...

Langston Hughes's typewriter still sits on the shelf inside of his Harlem home that real estate agents speculate is worth as much as $3 million. CNN Money meets with Renee...

Suicide’s Note           by Langston Hughes The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss.   The desire to be dead and the desire not to be alive and the desire to kill oneself...

Publishers Weekly just reviewed Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos, and Notebooks from Turkestan, edited by Zohra Saed for CUNY's Lost & Found Series V (which also featured Kathy Acker, William S....

We always want to keep you wise to what's wise. In that regard, please hail the coming of Lost & Found Series V! The CUNY Center for the Humanities has...

I would like to shift away from discussing the deployment of whiteness in conceptual, avant-garde, or experimental writing. In my previous post, "Canvases Pale," I included a definition of conceptual...

You a poet / man? Uh-huh, uh-huh Me too. —Etheridge Knight Sixteen years ago, I was a disenchanted grad student living in West Philly in a second-floor row house apartment. Mark (now my...