Nikki Giovanni was a one-of-a-kind writing talent who tackled everything from racism to love to life and death in her works.

Forget those funny roses-are-red poems and start with one of the English language's literary giants. 2. "Because I Could Not ...

Jean’s son Richard discovered the poem by chance when browsing a book of other poems before her death in 2018. He then set about tracking down relatives of the heroic airmen to share the verse ...

The poem was discovered inside a small exercise book Mr Gibson, from Rotherwas in Herefordshire, said he was looking through a collection of old documents ... his mother's death, a couple of ...

May 1 was the second anniversary of his death ... wrote many tanka poems about himself as a Buddhist priest. "After a funeral I performed as a Buddhist priest/ A senile old man said to me ...