In Transit – Jolade Olusanya
Julija Gulbinovic interviews Jolade Olusanya at the National Poetry Day event In Transit
Julija Gulbinovic interviews Jolade Olusanya at the National Poetry Day event In Transit
Melanie Roberts interviews Tim Garland at Play That Thing, an event at Poet in the City’s Poetry and Lyrics Festival
Julija Gulbinovic interviews Benin City at Poet in the City’s National Poetry Day event Journeys
Julija Gulbinovic interviews Crispin Best at Poet in the City’s Alternate Realities event, part of Kings Place Festival
Poet in the City · Interview with Akwugo Emejulu at Poet in the City’s Audre Lorde – Sister Outsider event Before entering academia, Akwugo worked in a variety of grassroots roles—as a community organiser, a trade union organiser and a participatory action researcher—in both the United States and in Britain. She joined the Department of Sociology…
Poet in the City · Interview with Matthew Beaumont at Baudelaire – Botanist of the Sidewalk Matthew Beaumont is co-director of the UCL Urban Laboratory and Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the UCL Department of English. Matthew is the author of Utopia Ltd. (Haymarket, 2009), The Spectre of Utopia (Peter Lang, 2012) and Nightwalking (Verso, 2015). As well as being an…
langston-hughes-dreams-deferred-kayo-chingonyi.mp3 The epicentre of Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes’ rhythmic, urgent poetry empowered a generation of new writers, with an aftershock that still reverberates today. His work was full of music and dance, and described the Black American experience over decades. Characterised by narratives of empowerment and a belief in humanity, he celebrated Black identity in…