Whether it’s a memoir about how a Black girl from the South Side of Chicago became the nation’s first Black First Lady or a novel about a single Black woman trying to raise a strong Black man ...

As Black women, we are often expected to be strong and fight-ready ... Take a deep breath between tasks. Read a poem. These tiny pauses are radical in a world that constantly demands our labor and ...

Data support the finding that 1 in 6 men have been sexually abused or assaulted. This means every sixth dad on the sidelines ...

Memphis has long had legendary women ... her strong and strategic leadership, Smith helped to desegregate Memphis public schools in 1960; in 1961 she personally escorted the first Black children ...

For years I tried, and mostly failed, to tell the story of my childhood molestation. I played a kind of literary ...

Poet Linda Susan Jackson is interviewed at length in the Summer 2025 issue of Brilliant Corners, where she discusses the formidable women in her family, her relatively late introduction to poetry, as ...

The Tremont Writers Conference explores the importance of community in a writer’s journey and how the mountains and natural ...

Conference participants will spend their mornings in writing workshops, then venture out to explore the region's natural history.

And I gave him my Black ... all of these poems that you dedicate to people in your life, be it your son or your mom or your father or Leonard Cohen or David Crosby, with a lot of strong emotions ...

My first dummy was a poem ... women have been able to present the sexual violence they endured as the central subject of a memoir. We men tend to be more circumspect. But the strong, silent ...