African-American poets have explored race in all of its literal and symbolic complexity since at least the Harlem Renaissance. The “Poetry and Race in America” panel at the University of Pittsburgh tonight is a continuation of that aesthetic enterprise. Seven nationally acclaimed poets — Toi Derricotte, Ross Gay, Afaa Michael Weaver, Nate Marshall, Rickey Laurentiis, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon and Terrance Hayes — will read from their work and engage in a panel discussion.