But even to begin thinking this way is to sound ridiculous, for Robert Lowell was perhaps the most serious poet America has ever known–our last poet of high seriousness, as it happens, and also our ...

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Smoke the Mic is featuring poet and lyricist Umar Bin Hassan this Monday night. As the tale goes, Bin Hassan sold his sister’s record player to buy a bus ...

FLINT, MI – “This is not a performance group,” said The Last Poets member, Abiodun Oyewole. “We are truthsayers. That’s what we’ve always been.” The intimate crowd of around 30 people listened with ...

Gylan Kain, the spoken-word artist known as Kain the Poet, who co-founded the influential New York outfit the Last Poets, died of complications from heart disease on February 7, The New York Times ...

Members of the poetic revolutionary group "The Last Poets" will be guests on Chocolate City to discuss the past, present, and future of black America. They celebrate their return to stage with a live ...