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Homing Instinct: African-Born Poet Keeps Returning To The Theme Of Home

Poet Patricia Jabbeh Wesley writes of war, family, love and home. In 1991, the brutal civil war in Liberia caused poet Patricia Jabbeh Wesley and her family to emigrate to the United States. The war ...
Los Angeles Times

Leopold Senghor, 95; African Statesman, Poet

PARIS — Leopold Sedar Senghor, a former president of Senegal and poet who won acclaim in Africa’s presidential palaces and France’s universities and literary salons, died at his home in Normandy on ...

African poetry is celebrated in a groundbreaking publishing project

The project has highlighted a new generation of African poets and created a visually beautiful archive in the process.
Los Angeles Times

Mazisi Kunene, 76; Zulu Poet, Teacher Fought Apartheid

Even while living in exile, thousands of miles from South Africa, Mazisi Kunene wrote poetry from home. Epic poems that explain the cycles of creation and destruction, the wisdom of the ancestors, the ...
Afro

PRESS ROOM: National Museum of African American History and Culture acquires major collection of work attributed to poet Phillis Wheatley Peters

New objects are available online in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the publication of Wheatley Peters’ poems, including the only copy of the poet’s long-lost “Ocean” poem in her handwriting ...

Wifredo Lam: Artist-Poet of Tropical Dreams and Sorrows

The great Cuban modernist, whose politics and Afro-Asian roots shaped his paintings and inspired generations of artists, gets ...
Newsday

Poet David Mills explores African Burial Ground, Jupiter Hammon at LI talks

"I’m looking for ways to make history sing," said poet David Mills. In his latest collection, "Boneyarn," a volume of poems laced with grit and grace about Manhattan’s African Burial Ground — ...
Yahoo

South African dissident writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach dies at 85

FILE - South African writer Breyten Breytenbach, right, and American actor and singer Harry Belafonte shake hands during a press conference in Paris, on June 18, 1986. (AP Photo, File) JOHANNESBURG ...
KETV Omaha

Jewel Rodgers appointed as first African American Nebraska poet laureate

BEAUTIFUL IN THE DISTANCE. WELL, IN LINCOLN TODAY, GOVERNOR JIM PILLEN APPOINTS OMAHA AUTHOR AND PERFORMER JEWELL ROGERS AS NEBRASKA’S NEW STATE POET. AT 27, ROGERS IS THE YOUNGEST TO HOLD THE ...
Yahoo

Nebraska’s next state poet is a Jewel, first African American to fill role

New Nebraska State Poet Jewel Rodgers, left, poses with Gov. Jim Pillen, First Lady Suzanne Pillen, and her father, Johnny Rodgers. (Screenshot of Nebraska Public Media) LINCOLN — Nebraska’s next ...
The Republic

South African dissident writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach dies at 85

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach, a staunch opponent of the former white-minority government’s apartheid policy of racial oppression, has died in Paris, his family ...
KSAT

South African dissident writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach dies at 85

FILE - South African writer Breyten Breytenbach, right, and American actor and singer Harry Belafonte shake hands during a press conference in Paris, on June 18, 1986 ...