When the earthquake and tsunami struck Japan in March 2011, Yuri Yamamoto was living far from home. She was born in Tokyo, but has lived in North Carolina since the '80s. Even so, she felt a need to ...

Non-cheesy poems to send to your man. Let’s face it. You’re not Wordsworth. But don’t you ever find yourself in need of a poem to express your love for your boyfriend or husband, can’t seem to write ...

It’s #WorldPoetryDay! Celebrate with us by enjoying these examples of incredible literature and personal expression by poets from across the African continent. Bassey Ikpi, a Nigerian-born but America ...

This enormous, in some ways groundbreaking, anthology shows the range and depth of verse about the captivity, enslavement and sometime freedom of peoples of African descent in the English-speaking ...

Blood Orange’s just-released Freetown Sound pulses with a beautiful melange of voices, from established artists such as Carly Rae Jepsen and Empress Of, to samples from De La Soul and Paris Is Burning ...