Davis repurposes the rusted sparkles of a summer love affair gone sour in this poem, inspired by Swift’s thinly veiled kiss-off to the 1975 frontman Matty Healy. Teri Ellen Cross Davis is the author ...

Cassie Phillips was a member of “Women in Black,” homeless women and supporters who host annual Leaves of Remembrance ...

It is the final song in Les nuits d’été, the cycle by Berlioz, which sets six poems of Gautier. They were friends and ...

Marysville author-poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo recently spoke to Butte College students, reading from his memoir “Children ...

A former student of Nikki Giovanni's recalls the fateful day when the poet and activist convinced him he was an artist. Then ...

Nikki Giovanni died this week, at the age of eighty-one, as that rarest of things: a best-selling poet. Her work burst onto ...

They say never meet your heroes, but I met this architect of Black joy in 2017 and learned an important life lesson ...

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

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

Legendary poet and activist Nikki Giovanni who has become one of the foremost voices in Black culture has passed away at 81 ...

The poet, author, educator and public speaker who rose from borrowing money to release her first book to decades as a ...