UVA professor Oludamini Ogunnaike discusses his work and inspiration after reading at the Library of Congress.

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With work from over 350 poets across 24 countries, the project hopes to elevate the African voice in arts and culture. The first-ever African poetry archive is rewriting history and doing something ...

Slapering Hol Press’s Seven New Generation African Poets, a box set of eight chapbooks edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani as part of the Poetry Foundations Poets in the World Series, seeks to ...

With work from over 350 poets across 24 countries, the project hopes to elevate the African voice in arts and culture. African Arts and Culture The first-ever African poetry archive is rewriting ...

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The African Poetry Book Series, made public earlier this week, will feature the work of African poets each year, publishing four titles beginning in 2014. The series was established in connection with ...

If the release of Nelson Mandela in February 1990 signaled the imminent collapse of apartheid, what did the prospect of massive social change mean for South African poetry, a poetry for many years ...

The 19th century was a vibrant period for poetry in the United States. But few know that African-Americans were an essential part of that. Slaves, former slaves and free African-Americans wrote verses ...

With work from over 350 poets across 24 countries, the project hopes to elevate the African voice in arts and culture. The Badilisha Poetry X-Change, a website launched in 2012 by the Africa Centre, ...

South African poetry, rich with history, has long been an underappreciated cornerstone of the country’s cultural landscape. But a new free-to-access digital archive is helping change that. Focused on ...

South African poetry, rich with history, has long been an underappreciated cornerstone of the country's cultural landscape. But a new free-to-access digital archive is helping change that. Focused on ...