the American racism that we live with. And... SHAPIRO: We should tell people that Terrance Hayes is a black poet, and blackness - and maleness comes up a lot in these poems. TAYLOR: Yeah ...

“Citizen: An American Lyric” — the only book of poetry to be named on the New York Times nonfiction best seller list — explores the structural racism and microaggressions that plague Black Americans ...

Her poetry collection 1919–which addresses ... was outlawed in general in the United States until the 1970s. The racism of American schools made further strides during the Progressive Era ...

That’s American,” suggest that despite ... black people could live free from the constraints of racism and oppression.

Our poetry editor recommends collections that ... with free verse and visual art to lay out a damning indictment of American racism; its title inevitably calls to mind Langston Hughes’s proud ...

A white man whose poem was published Tuesday under a Chinese-sounding pseudonym in The Best American Poetry anthology has provoked accusations of racism and cultural appropriation. Indiana ...

Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen: An American Lyric,” a series of prose poems on the manifold ways racism manifests itself in contemporary society and burrows into black consciousness, glides down ...

Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) is the 2014 National Poetry Slam champion and has given popular TED Talks on living as an African-American man in the United States. Earlier this fall he published his ...

One With Others is an experimental collage of voices that becomes a groundbreaking testament—a record of small-town racism ... a classic American font,” as Diaz puts it in her poem “Snake ...

A middle school teacher who had students analyze an explicit poem about Asian American stereotyping in ... drew accusations of violent anti-Asian racism. Though Johnson says only one student ...

He called for law and order. Yes! Juneteenth speaks loudly. It acknowledges racism as deeply rooted in the American way. Dilatory tactics are consonant with racism. In 2015, Dylan Storm Roof ...