Ms. Mac and Mr. Thomas said they started “Straight Girls” because they were feeling relegated to basements in Bushwick and wanted to bring a queer sensibility to the poetry scene in Manhattan ...

Amanda Gorman: All the details behind young poet’s show-stopping inauguration look, including that Prada headband The ring was a symbolic reference to Angelou's 1969 autobiography, I Know Why ...

If you haven't heard slam poet Aranya Johar's name before, remember it now. The 18-year-old is based in Mumbai and performs her boundary-breaking poems all over her city — and on YouTube to ...

“Girls in Iran live in fear of being reprimanded,” she said. Or worse. Sacramento State Fashion Merchandising and Management Professor Jaleh Naasz created the "Seen Iranian Women" exhibit after ...

Her poetry often deals with topics like gender, race and politics. She continues to explore these themes in a new picture book Girls on the Rise , which is a poem illustrated by Loveis Wise.

Jean Prokott—a decade-long Century High School English teacher, the city’s third Poet Laureate, a recent recipient of a $50K poetry grant—just wants to bring us together.