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World Poetry Day: Kayo Chingonyi

If you have ever looked on YouTube for spoken word artists in the African diaspora, you may have come across young Zambian born British poet Kayo Chingonyi. While sifting through videos of Chingonyi sharing his poetry, his unique style and delivery are quickly revealed. As his reading commences, his stance is static, delivering his words […]

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World Poetry Day: Catullus

Classical literature carries with it connotations of grandeur, while epic poetry entails feats of heroism. The great poets write books of love elegies and Odyssean hexameter; Catullus, however, is rather different. Having been alive during the 1st century BC, Catullus was a prominent poet whose surviving corpus contains a relative paucity of content, despite having […]