William Woolfitt's new poetry collection, "The Night the Rain Had Nowhere To Go," pays homage to generations of his people in mine-riddled West Virginia. I've known and admired Woolfitt's work for ...

The author of the book, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, is a poet, author and (as she writes in her bio at the book’s end ... and anti-racist and on a very personal level, as a person with cancer.

Acclaimed Australian author John Marsden has died aged 74. Marsden wrote the Tomorrow series, which sold millions of copies worldwide and was adapted for film and television. He won many literary ...

Read more. Story idea? hlcityregion@herald-leader.com. Former Kentucky Poet Laureate Frank X Walker can’t count the number of times he’s passed the green fields and white fences of Camp Nelson.

Dr. Ratna Sri Wijesinghe is the 20th Chairman of the National Library and Documentation Services Board, has rendered a proud service to the Sinhala Literature as a Poet, Author and Lyricist. Along ...

The Poetry Medal Committee recommended George Szirtes as the recipient of the Medal for 2024 due to his deeply personal pieces of work ... of his mother which won the James Tait Black Prize for ...

On that day, I followed Nikki’s careful instructions to type and collate the lines of poetry I’d scrawled in composition books and notepads for years and leave the rest to her. Less than three ...

However, due to the sheer scale and personal nature of her papers ... and the Elizabeth Longford Historical Biography Award. Another acclaimed royal author who deserves consideration is ...

NEW YORK — Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker ... from Nina Simone to Angela Davis and reflected on such personal passions as food, romance, family and rocketing ...

Nikki Giovanni, the ground-breaking poet, author, and professor whose work embodied the spirit ... She was known for her candid reflections on race, gender and identity, blending the personal with the ...

(AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public ... to Angela Davis and reflected on such personal passions as food, romance, family and ...