NEW YORK, July 8 (UPI) -- The art of the sonnet as practiced by British and American poets from William Shakespeare to Jack Kerouac is the subject of an unusual exhibition at the New York Public ...

Poet Marilyn Nelson was 9 years old in 1955 when 14-year old Emmett Till was lynched outside Money, Miss. The tragedy galvanized support for a fledgling civil rights movement. Nearly 60 years later, ...

Forms of Contention argues for the centrality of sonnet writing to African American poetry, focusing on significant sonnets, key anthologies, and critical debates about poetic form to show that the ...