Critical Sociology, Vol. 48, Issue. 4-5, p. 847. African American poetry is as old as America itself, yet this touchstone of American identity is often overlooked. In this critical history of African ...

In the narrow sense, imayo proper knows a limited set of prosodic possibilities, often in the form of a quatrain, that follow an alternation of eight and four syllables. The three main genres that ...

“I don’t know what it means for a species, a people, to grow older. If we are lucky enough to age, perhaps it means we see the line that leads out of our own existence growing clearer. The grief of ...

And a woman spoke, saying, Tell us of Pain. And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in ...