Most people would never put Shakespeare and Kendrick Lamar in the same sentence. One composed sonnets for the Elizabethan ...

Poetry is the structural rhetoric used to evoke emotional qualities. Rap is, at the etymological root, the chanting of rhymed lyrics in time to a beat. The literary facet of poetry has been around for ...

Things / Eloise Greenfield -- Hip hop rules the world / Jacqueline Woodson -- I think I'll call it morning / Gil Scott-Heron -- Aloneness / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The girls in the circle / Nikki Giovanni ...

Like its companion volume, Poetry Speaks to Children, this eclectic collection is accompanied by a lively CD; the focus is on hip-hop, broadly defined as “poetry with a beat.” In practice, Giovanni’s ...

Christa Bell, a poetry slam champion, performer and activist, shares a piece expressing her thoughts on the portrayal of women in hip-hop music. We've been talking about hip-hop and along with the ...

An (i)witness say he still had the mike in his hand / Randall Horton (1961) -- Turning the tables ; Wednesday poem / Joel Dias-Porter aka DJ Renegade (1962) -- An excerpt from Crank shaped notes / ...

Alejandro Nava is affiliated with Casa Alitas, a non-profit organization that works with refugees and asylum-seekers. As a first-generation college graduate and a Latino from a family that constantly ...