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By Nehru OdehProfessor Niyi Osundare is a man of many parts. He defies a single description too. Many describe him as a multiple award-winning poet, writer, academic, activist, scholar, essayist, ...

In the Ancient Greek epic poem “The Odyssey,” Odysseus’ men strap him to the mast of the ship so he could hear the sirens’ ...

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This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The diss track reached its peak of cultural prominence at the Super Bowl, when Kendrick Lamar performed Not Like Us, his ...

The Living Literature event changed Rebecca Balcarcel’s life forever. Before she was an associate professor of English on NE ...

Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written ...