West Knoxville writer Gardner Dorton recently had his poetry book published, and it's been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, ...

With dastangoi performances, plays based on poems and short stories, adaptations, and musical interludes, the 39th edition of ...

Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who rose from borrowing money to release her first book to ...

Renowned poet, author, and activist Nikki Giovanni dies at 81 after a recent diagnosis of lung cancer. Her legacy will live ...

Author of more than 25 books, Giovanni was a born confessor and performer whom fans came to know well from her work, her ...

This week’s story, “ Between the Shadow and the Soul ,” is about a fifty-year-old woman named Eliza who has taken early ...

Maverick speaks to KwaZulu-Natal-based poet and editor Kyle Allan about his latest collection of verse. In Kyle Allan’s third ...

Welcome to Speak Out!, the breakout digital segment of Celebrating Black Excellence, where we feature poets and spoken ...

I first encountered Nikki Giovanni, who died on Monday at the age of 81, in the pages of the 1973 edition of the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. It was the ...

Although new chances for love are on the horizon, closing out anything from the past is most important.

Jason Magabo Perez, appointed San Diego Poet Laureate in 2023, is closing his term — and his San Diego Poetry Futures 2024 ...

As much as you have this free spirit energy, you also have recently felt weighed down by responsibilities. Because of this, you’ve developed resentment toward your partner but haven’t shared ...