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What is a haiku? It's a Japanese poem, with seventeen beats.The first verse has five, the second verse gets seven and the third has five.At first, the…

Angelou refused to speak for much of her childhood and revealed the scars of her past in her groundbreaking memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. She opened doors for black and female writers.

Interstate 95 inspires more than just four-letter words, it turns out. Twenty five years ago, poet A.R. Ammons and his wife were driving home from a...

This week in the Creator Series, we spoke with poet Jesse Wilson about his One Spark project 96 Seasons. Wilson is from Jacksonville and writes of local…