From medieval cisterns to Mediterranean trade, the artist uncovers the past through evocative text, immersive sound and ...

poets like the late Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan used a similar thesaurus for their poems to challenge the status quo. Vedan is not situated in a cultural vacuum. There are other rap groups of the ...

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To her, spoken word had a similar feel to rap. “After that ... “I basically rapped one of my poems to the beat.” That was just the beginning. “Once I started writing, I couldn’t stop ...

He put his life into his poems. He showed me real life ... XXL Freshman Class with a vehemently visceral autobiography in rhyme form. "As a Black girl in the system, I was taught to hate myself ...

Rap battles have historically been a way for emcees to display their lyrical superiority against one another through the art of the diss, or disrespect. True to the name, disses have always ...

“As soon as I got the news, I decided all my essays were going to be poems from now on,” said ... So I wrote a rap about it, in anger. It all came out in about 40 minutes.” ...

Brander Matthews, a professor at Columbia and a friend, called Johnson’s dialect verses, in his introduction to the poet’s Fifty Years & Other Poems (1917), “racy of the soil, pungent in flavor, ...