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Pop culture and poetry intersect in a new book — “Black Existentialism: Autumn Leaves and Other Space Oddities” — by poet, ...
Julian Thomas is a poet, actor, audiobook narrator, and youth mentor based out of East Harlem. Originally from Tulsa, Thomas ...
The New Hyde Park-based writer has penned approximately 1,500 poems, he said, writing his first when he was just 8 years old.
You know the saying "kids say the darnedest things?" As author Matt Forrest Esenwine explains, they write some pretty wild ...
(THE CONVERSATION) To celebrate Father’s Day, The Conversation U.S. asked Philadelphia anthropologist, playwright and poetic ethnographer Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon to reflect on a poem she recently ...
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo recently published her latest children’s book titled “For A Girl Becoming.” KUNM spoke with Harjo, who said she wrote the book as an advice poem for her first ...
One of the biggest event draws is their Fruity Poetry Night. It started small, but has been growing by numbers, with lines winding around the block outside venue spaces like Afternoons Studio, in ...
Turning 75 this month, Maya Angelou has led many lives. She is best known as a writer, for her numerous books of poetry and her six poignant memoirs, including the masterful 1969 I Know Why the ...
LAKEWOOD, Ohio -- Feeling like the odd one out is something Lakewood High School junior Mel Diemert has dealt with her entire life. So when it came to submitting a piece of writing or art in the ...