A Phillips Collection show places the work of Washington, D.C., poet Essex Hemphill alongside artwork his life and writing ...

When Essex Hemphill spoke, people listened. Back in the 1980s, the poet and activist would fill the District’s coffeehouses and artsy theaters for his readings. He was the unofficial voice of ...

In Take Care of Your Blessings, the groundbreaking new exhibition at The Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., curator Camille Brown honors the poetic legacy of Essex Hemphill through a ...

As a Black gay writer and activist, Essex Hemphill used words as a weapon, a radical call to action, and a source of healing. His works are a literary archive of the Black queer experience during ...

Richard Saker/Contour by Getty Images Supported by By Danez Smith Essex Hemphill was a black and gay writer, editor and activist who died in 1995 at 38. Mr. Hemphill, who was one of the many queer ...

Smith named Essex Hemphill, a fixture in the Washington, D.C., arts scene and Black gay community of the 1980s whose work had long since gone out-of-print. “There really needs to be a reissue of ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. On May 9, BAM and PEN America present a ...

When the poet Essex Hemphill was invited in 1987 to recite his work at the Mayor’s Arts Awards in Washington, D.C., there was just one caveat. Hemphill was urged, hours before the show ...

In Take Care of Your Blessings, the groundbreaking new exhibition at The Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., curator Camille Brown honors the poetic legacy of Essex Hemphill through a ...