October is Fillipino American Heritage Month! Unfortunately, this article is a little late. For the occasion, I did a deep dive into Facebook’s abyss to find Arianna “Lady B” Basco’s (Dante Basco’s ...

In the wake of Malcolm X’s assassination in the winter of 1965, Black and brown poets like Amiri Baraka, Miguel Algarin, and Sonia Sanchez consciously rejected effete paper poems for those that sought ...

Spoken Word and performance poetry is on the rise again in Guyana. Two shows have been advertised over the past month which seem to be generating quite a bit of excitement and these have emerged to ...

Yale’s two spoken word performance groups, ¡Oye! and WORD at Yale, create spaces for student self-expression and vulnerability while pushing the boundaries of written poetry. WORD’s fall semester ...

Witty thespian Elsaphan Njora, 28, has made a mark with his spoken word poetry and TV roles and this year, he staged three highly acclaimed shows of his play Nzilani. He has a chat with SHIRLEY GENGA ...