Read more of Gidlow’s poems ruminating on her political and sexual identity in her collection On a Grey Thread. I shall never ...

Grandmas hold a special place in every grandchild’s heart. No matter how far you go, she is your rock of support whom you can ...

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

The poems that speak to us so strongly that we return to them in times of confusion, fear, loneliness or joy. Some of us might choose to scribble a couple of lines on a Post It and stick it to the ...

In one of the most famous love poems of all time, Burns goes all out to express the wonder of love: It’s beautiful like a flower, it’s sweet like music, it’s deep as the sea. And Burns isn ...

Knoxville-native Nikki Giovanni died on Dec. 9, but her legacy lives on. From new tributes, a documentary and the work she left behind, how to honor the world-renowned poet.