With work from over 350 poets across 24 countries, the project hopes to elevate the African voice in arts and culture. The first-ever African poetry archive is rewriting history and doing something ...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) celebrates National Jazz Appreciation Month and Poetry Month in April with special digital offerings highlighting ...
A central element to MSU assistant professor Suban Nur Cooley’s tenure as the 2026-2028 Greater Lansing area poet laureate is ...
In this necessary and unprecedented anthology, Young (Books of Hours) collects poems by more than 250 poets from the colonial period to the present. Young writes in his introduction that his aim is to ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) – Kathryn Waddell Takara grew up in the midst of racial segregation in the South. [Hawaii’s Breaking News–Download the FREE KHON2 app for iOS or Android] Takara explains that at her ...
“On Imagination” is the opening poem in the Library of America’s “African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song.” It was written by Phillis Wheatley in the mid-17th century. Wheatley was ...
The late curator's 1999 voyage with nine African poets inspired a moving procession led by María Magdalena Campos-Pons, writers, and musicians.
New-Generation African Poets (Akashic Books, $29.95) is an ambitious, vital project that delivers exactly what it promises. As Kwame Dawes explains in his rich introduction to the eight-part set — the ...
A poetry collection that recounts four journeys, including a physical one from the source of the Orange River to to the Cape Peninsula. Reuters/Mike Hutchings This novel shows the gutsy resilience, ...
Throughout American history, Black people have written poetry reflecting on their lives, their struggles and their aspirations. But many of these works had been lost to time, or never widely read.
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