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Read Patti Smith’s “the sheep lady from algiers” out loud, several times. A few questions you might consider, either in writing or with others: What do you notice about the sounds...

As a poet, I began my hybrid arts practice with Elmer’s glue, Crayola finger-paints, Microsoft Word, and no formal training. My grandmother was murdered, I needed a form for the...

In “Papyrus Pantoum,” Arthur Sze composes a complex and powerful landscape through the evocation, repetition, and recombination of vivid and delicately rendered images. Sze uses negative space, located in the...

A collection on the work and impact of a legendary poet

In “Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman,” Sonia Sanchez presents a series of vibrant fragments that urges the speaker and reader together “Imagine” and “Picture” moments in the life of...

Haki R. Madhubuti’s “Claiming Language, Claiming Art V,” can be read as an ars poetica that makes a powerful argument that much of the work of writing a poem, or...

In celebration of the poetry of Nikki Giovanni, this prompt explores what and who nourishes us; how we can in turn nourish others; and how poems can be both a...

In the “Introduction to Somatic Poetry rituals,” which opens their collection ecodeviance: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness, the inimitable CAConrad reflects on the power of ritual to inhabit the present....

Poems by a legendary Chicago poet, playwright, and novelist

Poems from an architect of the Black Arts Movement