Because attitudes and perspectives greatly affect marital quality, Wilcox first offers historical context. In the “me decade” 1970s, rising individualism and the women’s liberation movement ...

REST IN POWER 💔 Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her ...

Healing is not linear or categorizable but is an obscure odyssey of the soul that meanders, stagnates, and has ups and downs. It warps time, intertwining our past and present, perspectives, ...

Jim Coppoc’s life has taken him in several seemingly discordant directions, but his passions have always guided him along the ...

In many ways, for me, the political and sociolinguistic risks of putting ASL on the walls of an art museum feel tempered by the power of the ekphrastic conceit.

Love has long been considered a battlefield of emotions, where women were stereotypically seen as the emotional protagonists, ...

This article appears in the January 2025 print edition with the headline “Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment.” ...

I wrote a good omelet…and ate a hot poem…after loving you.” The author of those delightful words, poet and professor Nikki ...

The famous words "'Twas the night before Christmas" shaped the holiday by popularizing stockings, reindeer, and even Santa ...

Fresh off the heels of their recent Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album for their three-part spoken world ...

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 ...