Many of this year's books are sad. It's hard not to read the current political turmoil, the icy sense of dividedness, into these poems, though many of them deal as much with private as with public ...

Chico >> Long before Hallmark, Blue Mountain and American Greetings, folks wrote their own personal verse in cards and letters to express their love on Valentine’s Day. While that tradition dating to ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Sonia Sanchez is one of the most powerful voices in American poetry, a literary giant whose work spans decades of activism, love, and cultural identity. As a leading figure in the ...