Tag: Poet
Committed artist, the Malian rapper and poet presents a fifth album
Guest: Mylmo, Malian rapper and poet. On October 5, he released Kuna dia seben, the 5th album in his discography. Mylmo answers questions from Claudy Siar, Léonida Maia-José and leading…
GenevAfrica special with Heike Fiedler, polyglot poet
Are there still letter writers in the world who can extend the pen beyond a text, SMS or email? The answer is yes thanks to the GenevAfrica festival which works…
Tchicaya U Tam’Si a “cursed” poet: conversation with literary critic Boniface Mongo-Mboussa
Tchicaya U Tam’Si is a monument of modern African literature. A specialist in his work, the literary critic Boniface Mongo-Mboussa devotes a luminous biographical essay to him. Both narrative and…
Osage poet Chelsea Tayrien Hicks between resistance and “Killers of the Flower Moon”
She embodies the spirit of the Osage people. Poet Chelsea Tayrien Hicks is one of the main characters in “A Bridge Over the Ocean.” This film by Francis Fourcou allows…
American poet and Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück dies at 80
The American poet Louise Glück, crowned with the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died at the age of 80, her publishing house and the prestigious Yale University at which she…
The Ivorian poet, philosopher and novelist Tanella Boni
Since the early 1980s, Tanella Boni, who has taught philosophy in Abidjan, has striven to understand the world through all forms of writing. Poet and novelist acclaimed throughout the world,…
Franck Touchais, a poet of ceramics at the Manufacture de Sèvres
We continue our summer series dedicated to the craftsmen of the Manufacture de Sèvres. Today, meeting with a ceramic art technician at the small casting workshop, a shaping technique. Here,…
Avignon Festival: “The Garden of Delights” by Philippe Quesne, magician poet
The Boulbon quarry, mythical place of the Festival d’Avignon, reopens after 8 years of closure to the delight of festival-goers. It is in this stone crater surrounded by pines and…
Samy Manga, the cocoa poet
He has 7 hills in his heart, since he comes from Yaoundé. He still and always has the courage of the bark child he was in his equatorial forest of…
Luba Yakymtchouk, being a poet in Ukraine today
Born in 1985 in the Donbass region, Luba Yakymtchouk lives in kyiv. Ukrainian poet, playwright and screenwriter engaged against the war, she has received numerous awards. His writings, translated to…