“Poetry is dead!” cried John Berryman, emerging in distraction from the Manhattan hospital room that Dylan Thomas had just exited by another, more conclusive route. Poetry had been unconscious for ...

A founding member of the American music and spoken-word group The Last Poets, Abiodun Oyewole is also known as a founding father of hip hop. Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang Clan, Erykah ...

In the world of slam poetry, competing as a team and competing as an individual are two different beasts, as Suzi Q. Smith, a member of this year’s Slam Nuba team (which made it to the national ...

(AllHipHop News) The Last Poets are considered one of the forefathers of Hip Hop. The 1970’s spoken word collective’s politically conscious poems over beats laid the foundation to what would ...

FLINT, MI – “This is not a performance group,” said The Last Poets member, Abiodun Oyewole. “We are truthsayers. That’s what we’ve always been.” The intimate crowd of around 30 people listened with ...

There is a track that has become an unlikely earworm for me over the past few weeks. It’s called Bird’s Word and it isn’t really what you’d call a song in the traditional sense. It’s more a ...

Emerging from the Black Power era of the late Sixties and early Seventies, experimenting with street poetry and percussive sound, the music of Harlem’s Last Poets helped lay the groundwork for hip-hop ...

We live in time, but not confined to it; past and present blur into an unnameable future. It is in this realm that the great American poet Philip Levine walked, from the streets of Detroit to the ...

It’s been a difficult year in every corner of the land. But there are still neighbors and family, breathtaking landscapes and gratitude for the ‘bend without the break.’ Credit...Sally Deng Supported ...