What, then, can grown-ups glean from all those hours reading aloud? In the holiday spirit and with New Year’s resolutions ...

Recite these cozy Christmas poems to share the holiday spirit and make even your Grinchiest loved ones say, "Ho, ho, ho!" ...

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.” — Max Ehrman, American poet, lawyer Hello ...

Whatever it means to be Irish—whatever qualities of heart and mind, whatever generosity and love for the very earth and rocks ...

Friend and author Renée Watson confirmed Giovanni died Monday with her lifelong partner Virginia Fowler by her side.

Nikki Giovanni died this week, at the age of eighty-one, as that rarest of things: a best-selling poet. Her work burst onto ...

WWB staff members on their favorite translated books of the year and the 2025 titles they're most excited about.

Ms. Giovanni wrote poetry and prose that celebrated Black identity and attacked white supremacy, yet, at times her verse took ...

Hilary Duff shared a hilarious photo of one of her daughters’ diary entries—and it has major older sister energy.

NEW YORK — Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first ...

King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain paid tribute to the victims of the DANA with their 2024 Christmas card. An excerpt ...