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Spoken-word poets in Cameroon are using their art form to help communities cope with traumas left by the ongoing civil war.

A visionary writer, Blake begins by addressing living being within the natural world in such works as “Ah, Sunflower” or “The Tyger” — before taking each of those poems in unexpected ...

Some of the oldest poems are about war. Verses about warfare were carved onto Sumerian tablets that are more than four millennia old. Japanese samurai also wrote poetry about battles, as did Walt ...

Both art forms encourage us, the listeners, to react, reflect and ultimately select with which speaker to side.

There, he said, his poems found empathetic audiences and ... Cameroon was divided between Britain and France after World War I. They ruled it as two separate entities until the early 1960s ...

Analyzing ancient Chinese poetry allowed researchers to understand where humans went wrong in protecting the now critically ...

R. Bruce Anderson is the Dr. Sarah D. and L. Kirk McKay, Jr. Endowed Chair in American History, Government, and Civics and ...