GRIOT, which promises to be a "thought-provoking intervention", is named after the West African storytellers who preserve oral traditions ...

What does war look like from the inside? Ask Congo’s young slam poets.

A Philippine fighter jet and its two pilots are missing after an overnight mission against rebel fighters in the south of the country, military officials have said. The FA-50 plane lost contact ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

Scenes of panic broke out in the city of Goma and the Nyiragongo territory on Tuesday, after rumors of forced recruitment by the M23 rebel movement. Panic-stricken parents rushed into schools to ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

and the My First Rebel Artists series of six biographies of contemporary artists who “unapologetically made art,” which kicked off in 2019 with Jackson Pollock Splashed Paint and Wasn’t ...

More than 7,000 people have died this year as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have captured unprecedented amounts of territory in mineral-rich eastern Congo, Congo's prime minister said Monday.

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...

That story changed drastically in the $1.25 million Rebel Stakes (G2) at Oaklawn Park Feb. 23 when Coal Battle elevated himself from simply a feel-good story to an undeniable threat to wear the ...

But maybe it was not science fiction but poetry, the art of intimations and intuitions, that enabled some writers to describe what had not yet happened. Then again, what we think of as intuition ...