Author: thepoetslist

Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for work that the Swedish Academy described as “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” He is the first American to win the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993, and a groundbreaking choice by the Nobel committee to select the … Continue reading ‘Poetry for the ear’: Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in literature (via Washington Post) →

The BET Hip Hop Awards took place on Oct 4. This article was published on Oct 5. Big K.R.I.T. wasn’t nominated for any BET Hip Hop Awards Tuesday night (Oct. 4), but the Mississippi rapper may have still delivered the most memorable words of the evening, reciting a verse in spoken word form on the loss of black lives … Continue reading Big K.R.I.T. Delivers Powerful Spoken Word at 2016 BET Hip Hop Awards (via XXL) →

They are poets and some didn’t even know it. Southington Care Center resident Carol Slauenwhite only just discovered her observations of the outside world have a place on paper. Slauenwhite was one of a half-dozen residents who read their poetry aloud for an audience Sunday at the third annual Timeless Creativity: Art through the Ages … Continue reading Discovering poetry in the autumn of life (via The Bristol Press) →

She has been garlanded by everyone from the compilers of the Mercury shortlist to the judges of the Poetry Society’s Ted Hughes prize, but on paper at least, Kate Tempest’s new album still seems like a tough sell. It’s a 48-minute long hip-hop-influenced performance poem about the alienated lives of the residents of one south London street, set to … Continue reading Kate Tempest: Let Them Eat Chaos review – pop, poetry and politics collide (via The Guardian) →

Yesterday, British prime minister Theresa May gave a speech that set out the post-Brexit government’s worldview—and it was strikingly isolationist. She singled out foreigners, “citizens of the world,” business fat cats, and—by implication—young people, who had voted overwhelmingly in the Brexit referendum for the cosmopolitanism and free movement that EU membership bestowed. The previous day, home secretary Amber Rudd … Continue reading In sadness and shame at their country’s turn against foreigners, some Brits are turning to poetry (via Quartz) →