Her name was Braxton Baker. She was a rapper, a poet and a fashion icon — and she was from Richmond. Why it matters: One of ...

British musician George the Poet has criticised Kendrick Lamar for “cosplaying as a revolutionary”, as he questioned how vocal the US rapper has been about “important things”. The 33-year ...

Spoken word artist K Love The Poet discusses her journey to finding purpose, performance with MC Lyte, and how poetry became her vehicle for empowerment.

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.

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

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

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 ...

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.