Audre Lorde described herself as a "black lesbian feminist mother warrior poet." She was proud of every layer of her identity and used her own experiences to discuss the overlap between these ...

Joy Harjo, poet laureate of the United States since 2019, is clear about terminology in her memoir. She explains that members of Native nations like hers usually define themselves with reference to ...

Before Joy Harjo became a renowned poet, artist and editor, she was a quiet child who was more likely to take in the world from the sidelines than become the center of attention. But in a powerful - ...

In celebration of the new U.S. poet laureate this year, Ada Limón, today's episode revisits another poet laureate's conversation with Michel Martin about how poetry has been used to deal with pain and ...

A debut book by John Lovell— a former Army Ranger and Christian missionary who calls himself the Warrior Poet whose John Lovell Show on YouTube and Warrior Poet Society website claims over 100 million ...