Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Aurélia Durand / For The Times) In December 1990, poet Cornelius Eady, now 71, was feeling dispirited by the literary world. He’d ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is credited as one of the first influential ...

Northwestern’s Black Poetry Society hosted its third annual “Speak On It” event Saturday evening, bringing together poets from across the Chicago area to share their work. This year’s event, held at ...