Renée Watson is a best-selling author, educator and activist. Her poetry and fiction often center on the experiences of black girls and women. Poetry has been speaking to me and for me these days. It ...

Muslim women are powerful and can choose to wear a headscarf or not, says RadioActive’s Rahmah Abdulazeez. Rahmah wrote a poem about how she deals with discrimination as a hijabi in the United States.

NEW HAVEN — A local educator’s poem about a woman whose unique cells changed the history of medicine without her ever knowing about it, was read by him at the kickoff of an international, yearlong ...

When she was a girl, Lucille Clifton sat on her mother's lap and listened to her recite poetry. Her mother never made it through elementary school, but she knew the power of language, and her poems ...

On a recent evening, I had supper with a friend, a television executive. Like me, she was born in the era of World War II; like mine, her life was altered by feminism. “Tell me,” I asked, “what you ...