In honor of Hammon’s legacy, CAPA and PLI invite students to submit their original poetry for the open-mic segment of the ...

Ron Bechet and Keith Duncan will discuss Duncan’s “Battle of the Bands” exhibition for a Curated Conversation event at 2 p.m.

Randle said it was originally inspired by Gullah Geechee Ring Shouters from the Caribbean and how they came ... Although the three poems were written in very different times and reflect different ...

Established in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, National Poetry Month is an annual celebration held every April that raises awareness and appreciation for poetry in the United States.

When Lawrence Scott’s debut novel Witchbroom was published in 1992, it heralded an important new voice in Caribbean writing ... the new book’s preface, the poems in Looking for Cazabon ...

The poetry collection Myth shows how myths appear in daily life, from friends with benefits exploring Grenada to aliens visiting the Caribbean. In three moments and two interludes, Myth mixes ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

The poems in the collection were written largely between 2019 and 2022; once she began collating them, Pierre realized they shared a similar style and feeling. “I wanted to include mythological ...

“As if John Prine had spent his youth in the Kootenays,” says My Poets author Maureen McLane. West of West Indian constructs the queer Caribbean experience as simultaneously individual and ...

Professor Dawes also plans to establish a new Caribbean Poetry imprint, which will be publishing the works of regional poets. He says this collaborative initiative will be similar to work he did ...