AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A Dutch city named as its resident poet a rapper who in a 2012 song called the Holocaust a “cover up for dumb sheep” and a “joke” compared to slavery. The office of Jos ...

Regis Inge, an educator with the Compton Unified School District, helped shape Lamar’s love for language and storytelling ...

Throughout April, we're honoring the ancient Arab tradition of hakawatis, or storytellers, highlighting the writers, performers, and poets who are driving the conversation around what it means to ...

Columbus-area high school students will join celebrated poets from around the country in a live poetry reading at the ...

The MC/rapper and Guinness World Record holding human ... Actor and spoken word poet, currently the Roundhouse Resident Artist and was the youngest Slam Poetry Champion when she won in 2007.

A child of Compton, a Los Angeles neighborhood plagued by gang warfare, the author of 'Not Like Us' is using his fame to call ...

The Polish rapper Dominik ‘Doniu’ Grabowski once told a reporter, ‘If Mickiewicz was alive today, he’d be a good rhymer’. Adam Mickiewicz, the 19th-century poet responsible for some of the most ...

(JTA) — Darryl Danchelo Osenga will no long become the official poet of Haarlem, a city in the Netherlands, after his past comments dismissing the severity of the Holocaust caused a firestorm.