Now almost 40 years old, rap burst out of the Bronx ... of America’s greatest rappers as poetry. Adam Bradley, co-editor of the book, tells Weekend All Things Considered host Guy Raz that ...

Personally, rap has always been poetry ... the conversation in new ways and helped change many aesthetic approaches to express those things. There are many poems in the anthology that literary critics ...

Iliad is like a battle rap, an art form where people confront one another in a freestyle rap that includes boasts, insults ...

Poem Selected by Anne Boyer By Diane Seuss All things now remind me of what love used to be. Swollen cattails in lonely places. Gluey conditioner in my hair. Firm books. Their variegated spines.

Jaidon:When I first started listening to rap, it was for the musicality of it, so the rhythm, the poetry, but as I started ... and it can be used for a range of things that allow people to ...