The University of Nebraska-Lincoln on April 8 will have award-winning poet Camille Dungy as its National Poetry Month Speaker ...

At Vox’s Future Perfect, the section I run, we like to refer to the drastic drop in child mortality as the most important ...

It was a wonder to see the sage, Nigerian Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka man the stage at the 6th ProvidusBank World Poetry Day Café, held on March 21 at Terra Kulture Arena in Lagos. The ...

The news of her death at the age of 95 on March 6, 2025, represents another epic loss to the literary community in Nigeria, ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

For Professor Sunday Ododo of the University of Maiduguri, Osundare is a shining star of Nigerian literature. In his own words “as we celebrate the 78th birthday of Professor Niyi Osundare, we honour ...

Driving west toward L.A. on U.S. 66 out of Winslow, Arizona, on Christmas morning 1967, I was accompanied by my friend Pierre Joris, whom I had met just a few months earlier when he arrived ...

A Ghanaian-born poet; a chronicler of the Cuban refugee experience; and an experimental artist "writing between genres" are this year's winners.

Professor Niyi Osundare is a man of many parts. He defies a single description too. Many describe him as a multiple ...

In the Ancient Greek epic poem “The Odyssey,” Odysseus’ men strap him to the mast of the ship so he could hear the sirens’ ...

The creators of Artificial Intelligence bots designed them and continue to upgrade them after the fashion of their lived experiences. This is not surprising as it follows the pattern in which the ...

'Every day, my administration is fighting to deliver the change America needs to bring a future America deserves — and we’re doing it. This is a time for big dreams and bold action,' U.S ...