Listen to live music and poetry, learning about Black history and support Black culture in celebration of Juneteenth in ...

British writer Bernardine Evaristo has won the Women’s Prize Outstanding Contribution Award for her “transformative impact on literature.” ...

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

Makhosazana Xaba, an acclaimed poet and activist, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Pretoria for ...

“Because this award is 40 years old, and there have been a lot of amazing poets that have come out of South Africa in that time, but it shows that poetry was not seen as a performance art for a ...

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 ...

The event at the Halifax Central Library was led by George Elliott Clarke, a Nova Scotian and a former poet laureate of Toronto. Deadline for Trump's tariffs passes with no relent; Canada counters ...

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.

In the past, troops who went through SERE were forced to repeatedly listen to a reading of the 1903 poem, which is written ... punishing forced marches in South Africa. “Kipling’s writings ...

She has won several awards for her work and later this month, her work will be featured in an exhibit at the Grand Rapids African American Museum. Arianna's poetry journey was sparked by her ...

The CoE calls on all wordsmiths in the region to battle it out on stage in a slam poetry competition. Interested poets must be residents of the city and 16 years or older to participate.