Nikki Giovanni, a queer Black poet, activist, educator, speaker, and public intellectual whose craft and writing on sex, love, and race, has influenced countless others, died at 81 in her home in ...
When I first discovered poetry, I noticed patterns there, too, particularly in all the different poetic forms: a limerick is five lines long with the first, second, and fifth lines rhyming; a clerihew ...
Musical and marauding, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright’s language is a vessel for the ambition and anger of his people. Netflix’s The Piano Lesson — the latest adaptation of Wilson’s celebrated ...