A look back on the remarkable life of actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee.
One of the most notorious poets to ever touch pen to paper, Dr. Maya Angelou, passed away last night in a Winston-Salem, North Carolina in a hospital while…
It’s a sad time in the literary world. Controversial poet and author Amiri Baraka died yesterday in a Newark, New Jersey hospital. Baraka, whose real…
TODAY’S SPECIAL GUEST AUTHOR & PERFORMANCE POET SAPPHIRE She brought us the raw, tear-jerking story of young, battered, scarred and poverty stricken mother Clarieece Precious Jones in the film adaptation of her original masterpiece “Push” in 2009’s breakthrough Academy Award-winning movie “Precious.” Today, the story everyone should experience is continuing with Sapphire’s latest release “The […]
MIAMI-Willie Lee Bell Jr., also known as “Will Da Real One,” a well known Miami poet who had appeared on “Def Poetry Jam,” was shot and killed outside the Literary CafĂ© and Poetry Lounge he owned and operated. The New York Daily News reports: The killing shocked members of the spoken-word community, who said Bell […]
Happy Birthday Langston Hughes Born James Mercer  Langston Hughes (1902- 1967)  Poet, writer, playwright. Born February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. After publishing his first poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (1921), he attended Columbia University (1921), but left after one year to work on a freighter, travelling to Africa, living in Paris and […]
