As The Poke points out, a poem written in 1920 perfectly encapsulates the baffling nature of English. In fact, it's so tricky that even native English speakers with college degrees may struggle to get ...

Storm Cecile is an international spoken word poet who has been writing since she was a child. This year, to help mark ...

Spoken word is often used to talk publicly about societal issues. There has been a growing trend of music artists in the last few years using the words of poets to strengthen their voices and ...

Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case ...

It's enough to make anyone angry, as you can see in Melissa Lozada-Oliva's spoken word poem "Like Totally Whatever" — because, like, maybe this trend is not so good or whatever?

Yuki Jackson is an African-American and Japanese poet and educator based in Tampa Bay, Florida.Her work has appeared in Cosmonauts Avenue, Foundry, Entropy and other publications. She is also the ...

The left has never let anything get in the way of their hate and vitriol, including visits to the hospital.

He recited a 54-word poem by Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, a pioneering civil rights leader who was the president of Morehouse College during Martin Luther King Jr. education there.

John Lennon wrote a poem using the N-word before he became famous.. The former Beatle penned a racist verse during the band’s Hamburg residency in 1961. In the short poem, he uses the term ...

The Detroit Lions and Joel Fluent Greene created a spoken word poem to honor Black History Month. The Detroit Lions Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging council hosted their first Black History ...