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

The heart, quick, outgrows its own allotted cavity, and bends a branch right   (every time) and back—pivots into the cardiac ...

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

“Unrest” suggests the sleeplessness that turns A burning saint upon a brazier bed— Where bright with brazen martyrdom he ...

RELATIONSHIP IS HEALING ONE POEM AT A TIME. HER STORY MADE IT TO OUR NEWSCAST. A FEW YEARS AGO, HER EX-BOYFRIEND ENDED UP PLEADING GUILTY TO DOMESTIC ASSAULT. KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN’S QUANECIA FRASER ...

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

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, ...

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

The high school where the massacre happened was named for Colorado’s official wildflower, the columbine. In the Rocky ...

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

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