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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...