Oluwaseun Olayiwola is a poet, critic and inaugural member of the Rose Choreographic School in Sadlers Wells East, London.

Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

The dub poet, who appeared in hit BBC show Peaky Blinders, died at the age of 65 in December 2023, shortly after being ...

Describing poetry as the "language of justice" and "vocal cords of society", renowned screenwriter and lyricist Javed Akhtar has said the right wing has not been able to create any big poet across the ...

For National Poetry Month, we talk with Richard Blanco, whose “One Today” poem was read at Barack Obama’s second inauguration ...

Ukraine’s national struggle is no recent or “proxy” concoction. Previous articles in Solidarity have covered the Holodomor, ...

Data support the finding that 1 in 6 men have been sexually abused or assaulted. This means every sixth dad on the sidelines ...

Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...

What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of ...

Friedman added that the conceptions of systems of oppression present among African American demographics may have been influenced by the disproportionate incarceration of African Americans during the ...

The struggle of Africa and the Middle East against foreign oppression did not end with the fall of colonial empires. Instead, it evolved into new forms of neocolonialism, foreign-backed coups ...