Here are 10 essential poems by Langston Hughes that capture of the heart of America. Written when he was 17 years old on a train to Mexico City to see his father, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers ...

African-American poets have left an indelible mark on American poetry, and their words resonate with readers across generations. Famous black poets who wrote poems about black history This ranking ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Published in 1978, Maya Angelou’s poem was a retaliation against the oppression of black people in America. Over the past 40 years, it has come to be a piece that resonates with minority groups ...

President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” political slogan has unknown origins in Langston Hughes, and Skye ...

Robert Frost, who died in 1963, was an American poet. A four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, he was awarded a United States Congressional Gold Medal in 1960. Sometimes seen as the ...