We millennials like our poetry typed out in neat fonts on rustic pastel backgrounds, centred in a tiny square on a small screen. We read short, simple, and relatable poems which may strike a chord ...

Poetry is a beautiful art, which involves a lot of creativity just like other genres of art, but it seems it struggles to find its feat, compared to other genres of art. Poets in Nigeria struggle to ...

Learning a language is like constructing a building. Step by step, as the building blocks are cemented together, it gains height. Similarly, the building blocks of language (grammar, prose, poetry) ...

Ask Vallo Riberto and Kazmier Maslanka to explain what separates “mathematical visual poetry” from other text-based art movements and you’ll get any number of answers. Words like “algebraic” and ...

What happens to poetry in the Digital Age? In one of the first academic works in the field, a Swedish researcher has studied how the ability of the computer to combine words, images, movement and ...

What does the future hold for poetry in East Africa? Has time for juicy pieces like Okot P’Bitek’s Song of Lawino gone? Can the glory be reclaimed? Albeit these could be questions many poetry lovers ...

Birth, most people would agree, is a fairly important event. And poetry, most people would agree, tends to focus on subjects of intense emotional significance. So one would think the poetry of early ...

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I come to this a little late but I come to it with a smile I didn't think would materialise this gloomy Monday morning. If you're someone who, like me, gets grumpy about the pointlessness of the ...