First was a discussion at the Jule Collins Smith Museum with Alabama poet laureate Ashley Jones. The event took place on the night of Feb. 4 with limited seating in the museum. Next was an open Q&A in ...

Dawes, who was born in Ghana, said he plans to work in schools to help revive an interest in reading and teaching poetry.

Dawes, who has written dozens of books of poetry, fiction, essays and criticism, looks to celebrate Jamaican writing, oral ...

Widely acclaimed poet Professor Kwame Dawes has been appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica for 2025 to 2028. In the ceremony of ...

"Pollard’s readings [demonstrate] the diversity of her work [...] At its most characteristic, her writing assumes a ...

Many think this is what poetry is — rules, stuffy, guidelines, intimidating — but according to Matt Mason, it doesn’t have to be. As the former State Poet of Nebraska, Mason has made it a po ...

Tao Leigh Goffe says there are examples of how Black and Indigenous people bear the brunt of exploitation and environmental racism.

The Union County Heritage Museum has announced that Nita Hardin of New Albany has won first place at the Northeast Regional Poetry Out Loud competition while representing the Union County Heritage ...

From 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., readers will present dramatic recitations of selections of Poe’s poetry and works, said Carl Johnson of PLSRI. The program is free to the public.

Like so many of us, Caleb Femi spent the depths of the COVID lockdown remembering times when his body was allowed to be freer ...

Special to the Gazette At 74 Green Street -at the corner of Green and Cheshire- stands a one-story brick and frame building close to the street. It’s façade is mostly unassuming, the repurposed face ...

It feels like everything is coming together in a way that’s pushing me to new heights,” Jackson told the Jamaica Observer ... Prior to poetry, she recorded a handful of songs as deejay ...