Perhaps you think that the amazing feats of Winter Olympians—the ski jumpers, figure skaters and bobsledders—are poetry in motion. Kwame Dawes would agree with you. At the Speakeasy blog of… Read more »

Kofi Awoonor, a Ghanian poet, was killed last weekend alongside sixty-one other people in the deadly standoff at Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. He was seventy-eight. His son, Afetfi, was wounded… Read more »