One of Walrath's erasure poems Credit: Photo by Holly Lyn Walrath There’s an old riddle that goes: what gets bigger the more you take away? The answer is a hole, but it could also be Holly Lyn Walrath ...

Scattered words and white spaces. That’s what it looks like to flip through Dallas Poet Laureate Joaquín Zihuatanejo’s newest book, Occupy Whiteness. The book is a collection of short poems and essays ...

Like many people, poet Holly Lyn Walrath created all kinds of visual art as a kid in school. Drawings, finger paintings — you name it. But, like many of us do as we grow up, she abandoned it after ...

Romaine Washington is the editor of “These Black Bodies Are… A Blacklandia Anthology,” “Purgatory Has an Address” and “Sirens in Her Belly.” (Courtesy of Romaine Washington) The worst thing about ...