Hip-Hop fans have long known that Yasiin Bey aka the Mighty Mos Def is superb poet. Now readers of The Paris Review will recognize as well since one of the Brooklyn native’s poems has been published ...

Poet Britteney Conner redefined consent in her spoken word poem "Consent" at the Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam in Detroit. In her poem, posted to Button Poetry, Conner defines consent in multiple ...

The day that Barclays Center opened, late last September, Yasiin Bey (the former Mos Def) was in his adopted home of New Orleans, fielding a stream of calls. “People were asking, ‘Are you gonna be ...

This year’s National Poetry Day has the theme of Freedom. Among the events inspired by it is a reading - at Glasgow’s flourishing poetry club, St Mungo’s Mirrorball - devoted to modern Russian poets ...