As fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo rages on, a growing number of women in the country are turning to slam poetry ...

Challenge what you think you know about gender, power, sexuality, race and class. Bucknell women’s & gender studies majors have opportunities to study the legacy of slavery in the Middle East, ...

And luckily for us, there are plenty of poetry collections – new and old – to get stuck into, all written by women. From mental health and gender identity to race and religion, the best poems ...

Now videos of McNish’s home-recorded poems have received millions of views. Slam poetry, or spoken word poetry, is an art form that allows the poet to get across their point of view and express ...

Wendy Arimah Berot has gone through some tough days in the past year.But Berot, the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning’s director of program operations, found comfort in others, and, ...

Feb. 21, the University of Massachusetts’ Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research and the Black Healing, Joy and ...

In poetry slam, the delivery and rhythms of the words is at times even more important than the poem. Each slam poet has three minutes to present their poem in front of a five-member jury and the ...

The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning will celebrate Women’s History Month with a dynamic lineup of female poets, storytellers, and dancers ...

Poetry Slam, better known in Uganda as Slam Poetry, was born in Chicago, USA, in November 1984, with the first slam competition being organised by an American poet called Marc Smith. To lift ...

Mottley, the 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate, was known for powerful slam poetry appearances on the ... racist ...