War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.

That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy.