WHO: Texas’s 2024 poet laureate, Amanda Johnston. WHAT: The Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship for Johnston’s project, Praisesong for the People: Poems Celebrating the Heart and Soul of ...
Leo recited the first poem. He was sipping whiskey, I was nursing a beer, and spirits seem a potion more conducive to declaiming verse. He was 75 years old that autumn evening; I was 34. I'd known him ...
In the past, most African societies were oral societies. Although some African societies such as in ancient Egypt, the KhoiSan and Nigerians, used hieroglyphics, rock art and Nsibidi as a form of ...
Using her talents to spread the Word of God is something Ivaneccia Smith believes she has been mandated to do as a Christian. And with her gift of spoken word poetry, she decided to host a special ...
To dramatize both discovery and clarity in a poem is to write a Poetry of Poise. I wish we saw more of it. This is my theme for 2012. It's not so much that a Poetry of Poise is under attack from ...
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