Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

Edited by writer and activist, Jael Richardson, Today I Am is a collection of short stories written by emerging writers in ...

Njeri Wangari does Kenya's animals justice in this book, in which she talks about their characteristics in a witty, rhyming ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on Being with Each Other" and his own collection called "Kitchen Hymns." ...

Velma Pollard, the distinguished Jamaican poet, fiction writer, and linguist, passed away on February 1, 2025, at the age of ...

Special to the Gazette At 74 Green Street -at the corner of Green and Cheshire- stands a one-story brick and frame building close to the street. It’s façade is mostly unassuming, the repurposed face ...

A surge in Chinese car brands is transforming Jamaica’s automotive market. While Japanese, European, and American manufacturers have long dominated the market, and still dominate, the emergence ...

And then there is poetry. Most modern poetry written since 1850 or so is short, condensed writing, sometimes rhyming, sometimes not, using figurative, nonliteral language to carry meaning.

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has welcomed the decision by the United States to grant posthumous clemency to Jamaica’s first National Hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Holness thanked outgoing U.S ...

Two Jamaican men were convicted for their involvement in a complex international money laundering organization, according to the statement from the United States Department of Justice. St. Devon ...

All of us as vital as the one light we move through.” Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read for Joe Biden’s presidency in 2021, made her a breakout ...