Their poems explore with tenderness and anxiety the joys and perils of being a father -- especially a black father -- and how to escape the mistakes of past generations. Full Episode Sunday, Jul 6 ...

Barely old enough to feed ourselves, to locate love on the insides of rib cages, to know better. And then you came, slow at first, like a gathering storm or a seedling or a sapling. Your mother ...

It's a series of 50 poems about growing up, traveling all over America in the 1950s to follow her father's job in the Air Force. Each of the poems is identified with a place and a date.

When my love for poetry took hold, poems about fathers were the first to enchant me. As a high school student, I reread Sylvia Plath's harrowing poem "Daddy," excited by her audacity.

Interview Highlights. On why she first started writing poetry "I first started to write poetry, I think, as a way of dealing with the meta-space between racial identity: having an African-American ...

The poem resonates with the themes of perseverance and hope, embodying the spirit of endurance that is at the heart of the African American experience. 4. “Harlem” (1951) ...

Domestic Work (2000), which won the Cave Canem Prize for a debut work by an African-American, ... Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, ...

Father-son duo Leon Walker and Rob Young debut a live show in Tacoma June 15. The production blends original music and poetry to explore Black fatherhood. Tacoma Arts Commission backs the project ...

Two Philadelphia artists – a photographer and a performance poet – combine their shared passion for observing and documenting everyday life in the city.

Self-Portrait With Father. By Donika Kelly. We sit on opposite sides of a picnic bench, behind him, the black walnut tree, its fruit rich with maggots. Behind me, a wall of ivy we prune every ...

At age 3, Shane McCrae was taken from his Black father by his white grandparents — a rupture he explores in a new memoir.

Rhea Carmon, the first African American poet laureate of Knoxville, is a mentor, a motivational speaker and a math teacher. However, she finds herself teaching valuable lessons through her poetry.