poetry
Amiri Baraka, preeminent poet and activist, dies at age 79
January 10, 2014Amiri Baraka, one of the country's preeminent African American poets, playwrights and activists died Thursday at Newark's Beth Israel Hospital after a brief illness.
Read moreToday in labor history: Poet Carl Sandburg is born
January 6, 2014On January 6, 1878: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois.
Read moreA poem for Detroit
August 14, 2013I'm going to tell to you a story; the details are a little gory. Detroiters are under attack; they're trying to stab us in the back.
Read moreToday in labor history: Emma Lazarus born in 1849
July 22, 2013Emma Lazarus, the poet who wrote "The New Colossus," was born July 22, 1849.
Read moreChilean police told to find Neruda murderer
June 3, 2013Forty years after the death of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, a judge ordered police to find the man that prosecutors allege may have been instrumental in poisoning him.
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