From local poetry competitions in Nakuru to sold-out international shows in the US and The Netherlands and over 100,000 social media followers, Willie Oeba has built a career on hope, consistency, and ...

KSL graduates celebrate outside the Supreme Court of Kenya after being admitted to the Roll of Advocates. [File, Standard] Thousands of freshly minted lawyers will be queuing at the Supreme Court ...

It may be hard to believe, but there was a time when Dwayne Morgan was terrified of public speaking. As a kid growing up in Scarborough, Ont. the award winning veteran poet — nicknamed the “Godfather ...

I don’t remember subscribing to Things That Don’t Suck, the Substack that once belonged to poet Andrea Gibson, who died in July 2025, and is now carried on by their wife, Megan Falley. But it kept ...

Yale’s two spoken word performance groups, ¡Oye! and WORD at Yale, create spaces for student self-expression and vulnerability while pushing the boundaries of written poetry. WORD’s fall semester ...

When you imagine a lyric video maker, you’re likely to think of music—the boom of the bass in a pop song or the silky flow of rap music. However, what if we crossed that line? What if lyric-like ...

“Music & the Spoken Word” has been on the air since 1929. Much has changed, yet much has remained exactly the same. “Music & the Spoken Word” started as a local broadcast, and now airs on more than ...

Many years ago I heard some marvelous advice from the co-director of the UCLA Writing Project, Jane Hancock, about choosing the right words. She was speaking of prose, but I think it’s extra-good ...

Andrea Gibson, an author, performer and activist known for their spoken word poetry, died July 14 after a four-year battle with ovarian cancer. They were 49. Gibson died early July 14 at their home in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In the end, Andrea Gibson’s heart was covered in stretch marks. That was the way the Colorado state poet laureate, queer activist and internationally touring ...

A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political act. Andrea Gibson, in 2017. They were ...

Sunday morning in downtown Salt Lake City felt like it usually does on the first Sunday in April and October, when thousands of people from all over the world attend sessions of general conference for ...