A captivating performance by acclaimed Jamaican writer and poet Dr Natalie Corthésy highlighted Poetry in the Park, an event ...

With support from a Mellon Foundation grant, Brown researchers will build a database of African poetry, complete with poet ...

Eke’s 2022 publication ‘Twenty-Five Words of Gold’, which is anchored around the belief that being knowledgeable ...

His poetry, often simple yet profoundly evocative, captures the essence of the African American experience and, by extension, ...

National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang'ula painfully mourned celebrated Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o. He said Ngugi's ...

When an English professor at the University of Texas at Arlington assigned his students to look for some of the poems of first published African American poet Jupiter Hammon, he couldn’t ...

South African poetry, rich with history, has long been an underappreciated cornerstone of the country’s cultural landscape. But a new free-to-access digital archive is helping change that.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is spending $100,000 on a new digital ad that asks, “Are there any American poets in here? “American ...

Director Ava DuVernay included the poem, recited by actors Don Cheadle and David Oyelowo, in a short film she created for the 2016 opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American ...

Krog, an academic, linked to the University of the Western Cape, is no ordinary poet, having won, among others, an FNB Vita Award for best volume of poetry in South Africa at the start of the ...