Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer on Wednesday amid immigration enforcement in Minneapolis.

What I saw in her work was a writer that was trying to illuminate the lives of others,” a faculty member recalled.

Renee Good won a national prize six years ago for her poem "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs," which muses on science and ...

The Carl Sandburg poem “Chicago” has been a beloved local anthem for more than a century.

This week’s poem, by Sharon Kane, meditates on the outsized crises of the planet, and then on one small moment of love amidst ...

At the heart of Mahogany Browne’s poem “Working Title” is a question: how does a poet begin to address the killing of Michael Brown? Browne, who began working as a full-time writer in 2006, began the ...

At one time or another, when face-to-face with a poem, most everyone has been perplexed. The experience of reading a poem itself is as likely to turn us off, intellectually or emotionally, as it is to ...