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Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. [1] [2] (June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024) was an American poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator. One of the world's best-known African-American poets, [2] her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children's literature.
In high school, for her senior thesis, she modeled hers after Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah, which allowed her to recognize that poetry was going to be her medium for storytelling. [9] While growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, Jones struggled with recognizing her hometown as a place that was worthy of her love. She loathed the history of her ...
Richard Blanco (born February 15, 1968) is an American poet, public speaker, author, playwright, and civil engineer.He is the fifth poet to read at a United States presidential inauguration, having read the poem "One Today" for Barack Obama's second inauguration.
California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick, who celebrates the state in "My California," joins the L.A. Times Book Club on Dec. 12. From high schools to prison: Why California's poet laureate is always ...
Although Cisneros had written her first poem around the age of ten, with her teacher's encouragement, she became known for her writing throughout her high-school years. [11] In high school, she wrote poetry and was the literary magazine editor, but according to Cisneros, herself, she did not really start writing until her first creative writing ...
Q: Tell us about a point in your life as a student that changed you. A: “And it really happened in seventh grade. Good teachers. It sounds great.
Well, everyone knows, except us, that all Negroes have rhythm, so they elected me as class poet. [19] During high school in Cleveland, Hughes wrote for the school newspaper, edited the yearbook, and began to write his first short stories, poetry, [20] and dramatic plays. His first piece of jazz poetry, "When Sue Wears Red", was written while he ...
The poet Frank O'Hara called Berrigan's most significant publication, The Sonnets, "a fact of modern poetry." A telling reflection of the era that produced it, The Sonnets beautifully weaves together traditional elements of the Shakespearean sonnet form with the disjunctive structure and cadence of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Berrigan's own literary innovations and personal experiences.