Steven Leyva was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised in Houston, Texas. His first poetry collection, “The Understudy’s Handbook,” was published in 2020 by the Washington Writers’ Publishing ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Sudanese-American poet Emi Mahmoud about the fall of Al-Fashir to the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan.

The moment Lemn Sissay enters a room, audiences can tell he is there to perform. He is open and smiling, cracking so many jokes between his poems and memoir readings that the event feels almost like ...

Sissay’s first visit to Virginia Tech will be on Apr. 5, where he will read part of his play, perform some of his poetry and show one of the many BBC documentaries he has worked on. Before his arrival ...

This post was updated Oct. 18 at 8:59 p.m. Harryette Mullen sees poetic stanzas in everyday life. The English professor and poet will be reading at the Poetry Series presented by the Hammer Museum on ...