Think poetry is boring? Think again. These four incredible and diverse poets are proving the genre is more vibrant than ever.

Despite being detained by the apartheid government and his work being banned, Matthews never stopped writing truth to power ...

Country music, said Zac Brown of the Zac Brown Band, is a living, breathing form of poetry. It’s about real songs about life ...

Analysis - For the past five years, the GANGS project, a European Research Council-funded project led by Dennis Rodgers, has ...

Two-time Emmy-nominated and award-winning spoken word artist Trey Baker shares how he uses poetry to empower the youth.

Although the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects a global economy growth of 3.2%, several African countries are still ...

With her stirring speech 100 years ago, Sarojini Naidu inspired united opposition to empire and white minority rule.

Poetry became a way to create regions for herself; it was also a way to examine the cyclical anguish, the loss, the trauma, and the hopes of living in a region and a country more generally that ...

ALTOONA, Pa. — Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, has been invited as a featured poet at the ...

Yasuke depicted in a Japanese children's book by Kurusu Yoshio Almost 500 years ago, a tall African man arrived in ... There are no records of Yasuke's date or country of birth.

Chigozie Obioma, a Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Creative Writing Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University ...