The poems in If All This Never Happened span everything from autobiographical narratives around a working-class childhood and dysfunctional family life, to exploring the neurodivergent brain ...

She is the author of the debut collection “Bestiary” (forthcoming in November from Graywolf Press), selected by Nikky Finney for 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and recently nominated for the ...

There was no one like Nikki Giovanni. The Black poet, writer and educator, who was born in Knoxville and died Dec. 9 at 81, understood intimately that poetry was a spoken form of art as well as a ...

Over the years, I have learnt the craft of writing. As Kamala Das used to say, ‘I can write a perfect poem’. You can see my intellectual shifts in my poems. My poems are my autobiography.” ...

or to the purer lyricism of Garden Poem in Part One, but for this reviewer it's the autobiographical poems in Part Two (with a few placed elsewhere) that are at the core of this collection.