Spoken-word poets in Cameroon are using their art form to help communities cope with traumas left by the ongoing civil war.

I like to play with other people’s words. Most of those words are now in the public domain, so everybody else’s words are also yours and mine. And R.W. Emerson lectures us that every word was once ...

Starting today, we’ll have a week of games, videos and essays to help you along the way. First up: readings by Ina Garten, ...

Applications are due June 2, 2025, by 5 p.m. Interviews will be conducted in mid-May. The selected poet’s contract will begin after July 1, 2025. Applications are ONLY accepted through ...

Selecting the single words is much, much harder than you might think. “My goal is not for it to be a call to arms, like ‘Fight.’ And I don’t want ...

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This event at the Kingston Library literally puts a spin on this by incorporating a bingo wheel to determine the words ... Library Poem-a-thon invites poets and poetry fans to sign up for a ...

Overview: "A Princess in the Ghetto" is a soul-stirring play that explores the journey of becoming a Black woman in the city ...

In the story I am thinking of, he does it in a particularly surprising way: God instructs Moses, the leader of the Israelites ...

The expression comes from the famous scene in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” in which the eponymous seafarer shoots and kills an albatross—a sign of good luck or providence ...

had posted a YouTube video in which he stripped naked and recited a thirty-five-minute spoken-word poem about whether he should quit his job, after which he was promptly fired. The week of the ...

Tributes, poems and prayers from organisations and individuals have been pouring in to ICN since Pope Francis died on Easter ...