There's no one thing that makes a poem African-American, says poet and activist Nikki Giovanni, "other than what makes a baby black is his mother or father." But the chance to celebrate a rich ...

For 10 years, Ghanaian poet Kwame Dawes and his friend the Nigerian writer Chris Abani have sifted through piles of manuscripts looking for Africa’s new poetic talent. Since 2014, the African Poetry ...

Discover the power of poetry in the Black experience. Word In Black highlights five contemporary Black poets that everyone should know.

While on a trip to Cape Town some years ago, the multi-award-winning, Ghanaian-born poet Kwame Dawes and his colleague and friend Chris Abani, a Nigerian-American author, dreamed up a scheme that ...

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 ...

Kevin Young’s star has been burning bright for some time now. His work as a poet and essayist has centered on darkness, Blackness and even “Bunkness.” He is New Yorker magazine’s poetry editor and ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) 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 ...

Black Poetry Day is a chance to celebrate the works of African-American writers throughout history up to today. This includes one of the first black poets in the United States, Lucy Terry Prince, who ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. [The Best Books of 2020: View our full list.] In her stirring essay “The Difficult Miracle of Black ...

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. Focused on ...