The atmosphere of John Fitzgerald’s Long Distance (Gallery) is set up at the off, its opening poem Familiar speaking of ...

Most people know me as a treasure hunter but I do occasionally do some picking. Being a Alabama Picker who specializes in Antique bottles is a bit odd but every now and then I score a few good items ...

In ‘The Forgotten Seed’, a Bharatanatyam recital based on the works of Sangam poets that was presented by Alarmel Valli, ...

His writing is less extravagant, perhaps more earnest. Confronted with the great immensities of life and death, Greenwell ...

Can you spot the Easter eggs and figure out which song inspired each poem? Which song inspired this poem? Agodon follows ...

The above poem is a prayer of sorts, dated Aug. 14, 2020, and spoken by Joyelle McSweeney—the author and narrator of Death ...

Hilary Duff shared a hilarious photo of one of her daughters’ diary entries—and it has major older sister energy.

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

Govardhanram Tripathi was conscious of the absence of women in Gujarat’s literary pantheon. In his address as the president ...

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 ...

Unlike many of her Black Arts contemporaries, she honed her voice in poems about the comforts of home and domesticity and the ...

A plaque honoring Giovanni is located at the Cal Johnson Recreation Center, just across from where her grandparents lived.