Category: Poetry

Featured HarlemHaiku No 2 (#HarlemHaiku)

Below is this week’s featured response to our piece regarding Haiku’s about Harlem. Harlem, riddle me…

Submit your Harlem Haiku – Harlem in 17 Syllables #harlemhaiku

For National Poetry Month, The New York Times asked readers to write haiku about the…

Quote Of The Week: Ryunosuke Satoro

“Individually, We are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” – Ryunosuke Satoro *The works…

QUOTE: Nas (Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones)

“The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does, even if you murdered or robbed,…

QUOTE: Marcel Proust

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but seeing with new…

QUOTE: Mother Teresa “Kind Words”

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak. But their echoes are endless.” –…

Harlem’s last vestiges of Fall

We thought we had missed it. But we managed to glimpse it. The last whispers….

LET’S TAKE IT HIGHER at CARNEGIE HALL – Kids Helping Kids for Clean Water in Haiti

Chad Harper (Hip Hop Saves Lives) and Negus World bring you  “Let’s Take It Higher”…

Harlem jazz pianist wins a MacArthur ‘Genius’ Award

Harlem resident Vijay Iyer, 41, the jazz pianist and composer known for collaborations with poets wins a…