Arthur Sze is appointed U.S. poet laureate as the Library of Congress faces challenges
At a time when its leadership is in question and its mission challenged, the Library of Congress has named a new U.S. poet laureate, the…
Vivian Ayers Allen dead: Poet and mother to stars was 102
Vivian Ayers Allen, a Pulitzer-nominated poet who foreshadowed the country’s journeys into space and was mother to Debbie Allen and Phylicia Rashad, has died, the…
POET Technologies Reports Fourth Quarter 2024 Financial Results
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Why Israelis and Palestinians should read each other’s poetry
Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are…
“Dehumanisation of Palestinians is so normalised,” Poet Mohammed El Kurd | TV Shows
Marc Lamont Hill discusses the dehumanisation of Palestinians with author and poet Mohammed El-Kurd.“Death is so quotidian that journalists report it as though they’re reporting…
Lawyer fears Egyptian poet could be tortured if extradited from Lebanon | Syria’s War
NewsFeedA lawyer for activist and poet Abdul Rahman Yusuf has told Al Jazeera that he would be at risk if extradited to Egypt or the…
Calls grow for release of jailed poet al-Qaradawi after arrest in Lebanon | Human Rights News
Egyptian activist Abdul Rahman al-Qaradawi was held due to an Egyptian arrest warrant, a Lebanese official said.A group of lawyers and activists have called for…
Appreciation: Nikki Giovanni made me a poet. Listen, and she’ll still make you one too
“You sound like a poet.”When Nikki Giovanni uttered these words in January 2007 at the end of a two-hour interview, she shifted my life’s focus…
Nikki Giovanni, poet and civil rights activist, dies at 81
Poet and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni, a prominent figure during the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and ‘70s who was dubbed “the Princess…