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

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

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

The poems in Invisible Dog draw on five decades ... intonations – a mixed blessing – and thus has a very different attitude to line-breaks, with lines often concise and never capitalised.

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.

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

The literary icon and educator was known for sharing her blunt and conversational takes on everything from racism to love to ...

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

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

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 ...

A recent peer-reviewed study published in Nature Scientific Reports and reported on in NewScientist suggests that, in general, humans cannot distinguish between human-written poetry and poems ...