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 ...

It feels like everything is coming together in a way that’s pushing me to new heights,” Jackson told the Jamaica Observer ... fi Send Down are some of the poems that brought the Portland ...

February is Black History Month in Canada. Check out this list of buzzworthy works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by Black ...

Our critic takes you through a meal at Torrisi, where the story of the five boroughs is channeled through the food.

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

Sam Sifton takes you through a meal at Torrisi, where the story of the five boroughs is channeled through the food.

McKay’s political radicalism was tied to his affinity with working-class life in all its diversity ­— a long-standing public commitment which began with his early Jamaican poems about the lives of ...

Satirist famed for her biting humour who co-wrote A Star Is Born is unveiled as the wit behind mystery Life magazine poems published 100 years ago ...

Presteigne Festival will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), one of the most ...