Browsing: Poetry

This art installation/music performance is inspired by the painted works of Floyd D. Tunson and Pulitzer Prize-winning Yusef Komunyakaa!

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (March 24, 1919-February 22, 2021) was an American poet, painter, social activist, and the co-founder of San Francisco’s City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. He was the author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration.

McCalla’s Haitian influences richly intersect with American folk music, just as Hughes unified Black speech with stunning poetry

Episode four of the Mighty SONG Writers video series

Jewel on battling anxiety, living with dyslexia, and finding solace in philosophy

“I thought about Emmett Till, and I couldn’t go back [to the back of the bus].” – Rosa Parks