NEW BEDFORD — Local poet and cultural organizer Erik Andrade has been recognized for his contributions to Black literature with the publication of two original poems in Black Fire This Time Vol. 2 and ...

Let’s begin with the title. “Bluff” — the name of Danez Smith’s fourth collection of poetry, and first since January 2020 — represents a cliff or aerie, a high point from which to take a broader view.

University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press will release Beautiful and Ugly Too by Chuck Perkins, hitting bookstores July 29. New Orleans local Perkins is a product of city’s public school system, and ...