At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.

I first interviewed Toni Morrison about her work as a book editor in September ... “You are not the French lady poet—he is!” Morrison knew that Chase-Riboud’s first literary achievement would need to ...

The Toni Morrison Poetry Contest has no specific theme, but the work must be an original poem of up to 40 lines, in free or formal verse. The poetry contest is open to grades six to eight, nine to ...

For those who want to bring words to life and showcase creativity, the Toni Morrison poetry contest begins Nov. 1, according to a news release from the Lorain Public Library System. Local students ...

And the legendary poet also isn't spending any time thinking about her legacy. ... Toni Morrison and Mars : Wild Card with Rachel Martin At 81, Nikki Giovanni isn't afraid of getting older.

“I like to think of the book as a praise poem, a love letter and a thank you to Toni Morrison…the way it’s written is that we, the reader, are talking to Toni Morrison, and she, in turn, is ...

Toni Morrison’s “Jazz” (1992) is a book born of books. In a 2004 foreword, Morrison traces the novel’s premise to an image of a young woman she saw in the photographer James Van Der Zee ...

Thirty years ago, on October 7, 1993, Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature. ... And she addresses us with the luster of poetry. ...

How Toni Morrison Wrote Her Most Challenging Novel ‘Jazz’ is a roaming, musical book, writes the poet Morgan Parker. It reads differently than the author’s others and is said to have been ...

Lorain Public Library System has announced it will host its second annual Toni Morrison Poster Contest with the addition of a Poetry Contest, according to a news release. “We are one of the ...

Toni Morrison. Deborah Feingold/Corbis via Getty. If the book's subject, who died in 2019, could read it today, Pinkney thinks she'd be pleased with it too.

The last time I saw the late Toni Morrison speak was in 2016; she was on a panel with the poet Sonia Sanchez and the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, and they talked about art and social change. The ...