Kendrick Lamar (pitchfork.com) Yesterday, the Pulitzer Prize Foundation announced its 2018 honorees , and this year list brought a part...

I'm back from a few days at this year's annual Associated Writing Programs  (AWP) conference, which was held over the last week ...

A few recent random photos. Enjoy! Chinelo Okparanta & Robin Coste Lewis answering questions after their superb reading at Rutgers-...

Last Friday I participated in a great mini-symposium, "Out of Bounds: The Slave Past and Contemporary Poetry," at Rutgers Uni...

As part of the poetry reading and discussion "Experimentation and the Black Aesthetic" at The Museum of Contemporary African Dias...

If you are in or around Brooklyn this evening, drop by MoCADA to catch PATTERN RECOGNITION , an amazing exhibit of contemporary abstract ...

The Wire : is it really over? What a finale! I know folks who haven't yet seen all the prior four seasons, so I'll keep my though...

Mendi recently pointed me and others towards this site, Delirious Hem: Dim Sum , which I'll let its creators describe: Some of us ...