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Poetry Africa Announces Programme for Its 30th Festival and World Poetry Slam Championship in Durban, 5–9 October 2026

Poetry Africa will mark its 30th edition this October with five days of performances, poetry slams, workshops, industry conversations, and literary programming across Durban, culmi...

Koleka Putuma Nominated 2026 Featured Poet as Poetry Africa Marks its 30th Anniversary Edition

Thirty years is long enough for a festival to become something closer to a tradition, and Poetry Africa marks that milestone this October with a name that fits the occasion. Koleka...

Step Out of the Group Chat. The Dodge Poetry Festival Brings Artists’ Performances IRL

Experience powerful live poetry performances this October in Newark that inspire and unite communities.

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Modjaji Books Brings Together 19 Poets from Across Southern Africa to Release Gathered Seams

Modjaji Books has released Gathered Seams, a poetry anthology gathering nineteen poems from women writers across Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and South Africa. Edited by Li...

Cave Canem to Honor South African Poet Laureate Mongane Wally Serote, October 8, 2026

Cave Canem Foundation will host a Legacy Conversation with South African Poet Laureate Mongane Wally Serote on October 8, 2026, at its New York space, 65 Bleecker Street. The eveni...

Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry Now Open for Submissions | Submit by December 1

Submissions are now open for the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, the annual award given to an African poet who has not yet published a full-length poetry collection....

Edinburgh's first poetry festival returns to the city in November

Edinburgh’s first ever poetry festival starts its fifth year with an intimate performance with award-winning poet Jackie Kay

Why I Wrote this Book: Issue #66 — Poetry Issue!

Featuring David Ly, Conyer Clayton, Sanna Wani, and Jade Wallace David Ly, author of Ritual, Interrupted (Palimpsest Press, September 2026) I feel like I have a curiosity to be clo...

A continuing exploration of the self

Poetry remains one of the arts most capable of approaching the unknown without ever fully surrendering it to explanation. A poet may come close to what he seeks, yet refuses the ea...

Sunday poem, by Ashlin Mathews

DДЃr / IlГ© | Wardah Abbas | Poetry

  Mallam calls it dДЃr. The elders call it ilГ©. I measure the distance between the two words, an imaginary tape widening between my teeth. Outside, the rain hammers on the leaking...

“What Does the Poem Say About Nigeria?” A Conversation with the Three Finalists for the $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Liter...

What can poetry hold when a country is carrying too much history? For Ogaga Ifowodo, James Ngwu Eze and Tares Oburumu, poetry becomes a way of looking closely at Nigeria: at the vi...

A Feisty, Photogenic Jersey City Poetry Festival Takes Over Mana Contemporary

The poet laureate stood, elevated, on a dais, much like a magician in the midst of spellcasting. Surrounded by a ring of electric candles and flanked by a fiddler and a sign langua...

A Continent With No Return Address | Tuoyo Palmer | Poetry

  The country sent its people home with a statement. Home, it seemed, was a word that could still be stamped on paper. At the border, a man opened his passport as though opening a...

Young poets inspired by British Library project

Children at Cockburn Ingram Road Academy have been exploring their creativity through an exciting poetry project in partnership with the British Library. Pupils worked closely with...

When poetry lived in landhi

Beyond the posh drawing rooms and grand halls, Karachi’s poetry once thrived in its working-class neighborhood

The most incredible poem of 2026, surely

An epic memoir told in four-line stanzas The post The most...

Their Stillness Is My Curiosity

The most recent news from Nigeria and across the world is available at The News Chronicle. The News Chronicle provides the most recent headlines, commentary, and political news. At...

Don Agey's Three Candid and Wide-Ranging Poetry Collections Head to the 2026 Manila International Book Fair

“The Eclectic Harvest” poetry book series brings together an ensemble of humor, grief, faith, aging, everyday frustrations, social commentary, and memories from a life fully lived...

Poetic Wednesdays Initiative Announces KAPFEST 3.0: Reclaiming Languages, October 15–17, 2026, in Kano

The Poetic Wednesdays Initiative has announced the third edition of the Kano International Poetry Festival (KAPFEST), running October 15 to 17, 2026, in Kano under the theme Reclai...

Ameen Animashaun and Edinam Denoo Win $1,000 Each in the Inaugural Alhaji Arole Agarawu African Poetry Prize

Nigerian poet Ameen Animashaun and Ghanaian poet Edinam Denoo have been named the winners of the inaugural Alhaji Arole Agarawu African Poetry Prize, an international award celebra...

“History Is Handmade”: Ayesha Harruna Attah and Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu Among the Lineup for the 2026 Doek Literary Festiv...

The Doek Literary Festival returns to Windhoek for its third edition, running Wednesday, September 30 through Saturday, October 3, 2026. Hosted every two years by the Doek Arts Tru...