Walker’s first published poem was “I Want To Write.” She wrote “For My People” in 1937 and published her first collection of ...

Award-winning US poet Nikki Giovanni, who was at the forefront of the Black Arts Movement, died aged 81 after a long battle ...

Perhaps a lot of us first encountered the poems of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes in a classroom where he numbered among the few writers of color we were assigned to study. Danez Smith, the ...

A poet, novelist, fiction writer, and playwright, Langston Hughes is known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties and was important in ...

Oprah Winfrey, who honored Nikki Giovanni at her famous Legends Ball, shared with Knox News her favorite poem.

Nikki Giovanni did not dream of being a writer, but her writing left an indelible mark on America and the world.

Giovanni, whose most famous poems included 'Knoxville, Tennessee' and 'Nikki-Rosa', died following her third cancer diagnosis.

Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr., the beloved Knoxville native and internationally recognized poet and provocateur, died ...