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20 Poets You Should Know For National Poetry Month, were celebrating these bookshelf worthy scribes Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for BET April is National Poetry month and with Amanda Gorman’s historic inauguration performance centering poetry on the world stage, people inside and outside of the literary world are paying extra attention to our country’s scribes during this season. Poets are our mirrors, healers, and judges. They reflect back our values, actions, and priorities...

W. Ralph Eubanks new book examines Mississippis mighty contributions to American literature, and what writers like Eudora Welty and Jesmyn Ward can teach us about broader national issues.

W. Ralph Eubanks new book examines Mississippis mighty contributions to American literature, and what writers like Eudora Welty and Jesmyn Ward can teach us about broader national issues.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Former Mississippi and U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey and...

201 4 minutes read This article is part of Liberation’s commemoration of Black History Month, 2021. During Black History Month each year we recognize leaders who have pushed the struggle forward with events, memorials and educationals. Many of those we celebrate believed in and fought for revolutionary change.  Prior to the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, the Union was losing the Civil War. But that summer, the bloodiest battle of the Civil War — the Siege of Port Hudson, in ...

They had to leave mississippi in the 60s to get married. >> how did it affect you, the idea that your parents marriage was a crime? >> well, i think that it created in me a sense of psychological exile. >> and when she was 19, her mother was murdered by her former stepfather. >> thats the moment where i really tried in the language of poetry to make sense of that loss. >> here the dead stand up in stone. white marble on confederate avenue. i stand on ground once hallowed by a web of -- >> one of...