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National Black Writers Conference to Celebrate Poet Camille T. Dungy

For the award-winning poet, who will be honored at the National Black Writers Conference at Medgar Evers College next week, ...
WGBH

Who was Phillis Wheatley, the first African American poet to publish a book?

In 1761, a young girl crossed the Atlantic on a slave ship. Captured in West Africa and transported to Boston, where she was enslaved by John and Susanna Wheatley. They named her Phillis, after the ...
Yahoo

South African dissident writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach dies at 85

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach, a staunch opponent of the former white-minority government’s apartheid policy of racial oppression, has died in Paris, his family ...

4 poetry collections to check out ahead of National Poetry Month

The collections suggested here explore, celebrate and illuminate the vast, intricate lives and experiences of Black people ...
Newsday

Poet David Mills explores African Burial Ground, Jupiter Hammon at LI talks

"I’m looking for ways to make history sing," said poet David Mills. In his latest collection, "Boneyarn," a volume of poems laced with grit and grace about Manhattan’s African Burial Ground — ...

Athol Williams: From Zondo Commission whistleblower to Oxford's first poet laureate

Athol Williams' appointment as Poet Laureate at Saïd Business School is a groundbreaking achievement, rooted in his courageous journey as a whistleblower. Discover how his experiences of exile and ...
KETV Omaha

Jewel Rodgers appointed as first African American Nebraska poet laureate

BEAUTIFUL IN THE DISTANCE. WELL, IN LINCOLN TODAY, GOVERNOR JIM PILLEN APPOINTS OMAHA AUTHOR AND PERFORMER JEWELL ROGERS AS NEBRASKA’S NEW STATE POET. AT 27, ROGERS IS THE YOUNGEST TO HOLD THE ...
The Conversation

African poetry is celebrated in a groundbreaking publishing project

Tinashe Mushakavanhu does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...
The Conversation

South African poetry has a new digital archive – what’s behind the project

Tinashe Mushakavanhu does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...
KSAT

South African dissident writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach dies at 85

FILE - South African writer Breyten Breytenbach, right, and American actor and singer Harry Belafonte shake hands during a press conference in Paris, on June 18, 1986 ...