Dawes, who was born in Ghana, said he plans to work in schools to help revive an interest in reading and teaching poetry.

Dawes, who has written dozens of books of poetry, fiction, essays and criticism, looks to celebrate Jamaican writing, oral ...

As we reflect on Marcus Garvey’s words ... book should be required reading for every Jamaican high school student. Garvey was a voracious reader. We have fine librarians in every parish of ...

Hamilton-based author, teacher and performer Tania Hernandez wrote a book to honour Miss Lou, someone who 'challenged the ...

Then he folds them, in the form of words, around a line break, kind of like how they are wrapped around his head. The poem concentrates ... a formally ambitious book (“Discrete Series ...

On Tuesday evening, award-winning writers Bernadine Evaristo and Claudia Rankine read excerpts of their work and reflected on ...

This story is part of The Hindu on Books newsletter that comes to you with ... made himself a pivot of the story of modern Indian poetry in English. In rich tributes, put together by novelist ...

My origin story until relatively recently was this: I was born at Nuttall Hospital in Cross Roads, Kingston, Jamaica. And all four grandparents ... Nancy McLean left no written trace. I found the ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University’s Department of English welcomes award-winning author Cindy Juyoung Ok, an ...

Rather, the opera sets to music her words, taken from a poem she wrote later in life. Herrera, a Mexico City-born singer and songwriter, had given a Sor Juana book as a birthday gift to Prestini ...

When asked about her inspiration for the book, the author passionately explains, “My deep appreciation for my Greek heritage ...

Alistair Fenn/NTS/PA Wire A lock of hair belonging to Mary Campbell, or Highland Mary, with whom Burns had made plans to emigrate to Jamaica during ... much as the famous words he wrote.