Bearden's Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden (co-editor with Matthew Shenoda) – Northwestern University Press (forthcoming, April 2017) A Bloom of Stones: A Multilingual Anthology of ...

MORE than 20 schools are scheduled to be visited during this year’s staging of the Jamaica Poets Nomadic College and School ...

Kwame Dawes is the author of twenty books of poetry and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. Dawes was born in Ghana, spent most of his childhood and early adult life in Jamaica ...

Mort's collection "Music for the Dead and Resurrected" won the 2021 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize. Her other honors include a 2021 Rome Prize in literature and ...

Is it for some burial place, vast and dry? Is it to wet the soil of graves? This poem is written in free verse. Try writing your own free verse poem. It doesn't have to rhyme or use a structure ...

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...

Co-honoree Nikky Finney has described the conferences as a “Black poetry planet ... Cornelius Eady and Kwame Dawes; past honorees include Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni and Rita Dove.

Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...

Kwame Onwuachi is the chef of Tatiana in New York City and competed on Top Chef season 13. In 2019, he was a Food & Wine Best New Chef, the James Beard Foundation's Rising Star Chef of the Year ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. Cover illustration for “Black Star.” ...