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

Barbarian invaders may not even exist, but our fear, anxiety, anger and exhaustion do exist. Our insomnia, substance use, ...

Like listening to music, reading is an activity that recharges the spirit. It offers a chance to unplug for an hour to fill ...

In a world preoccupied with material power—military, economic or political—it is easy to overlook the invisible forces that truly shape human history. Yet the most enduring and transformative powers ...

The following short story by Yukio Mishima (1925–1970), newly translated by John Nathan, was first published in the June 1965 ...

Chimwemwe Undi is a Winnipeg-based poet, editor and lawyer. She was the Winnipeg poet laureate for 2023 and 2024. She won the ...

As much as I wish they hadn’t, and though they took up no physical space in our backpacks, our fear and confusion about the ...

West Knoxville writer Gardner Dorton recently had his poetry book published, and it's been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, ...

Knoxville-native Nikki Giovanni died on Dec. 9, but her legacy lives on. From new tributes, a documentary and the work she ...

As if a world of concrete things were to be gathered into the titular abstraction; or as if Kipling's rightness were presently to be proved remarkable in that it is all wrong. And yet, I think, ...

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

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