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29m
Poet Nikki Giovanni on white supremacy, the Capitol attack, and teaching the Virginia Tech shooter
Poet and activist Nikki Giovanni joins Krishnan Guru-Murthy to to talk about her life and work, how anger has fuelled her poetry at different stages of her life – touching on topics such as domestic abuse, segregation, Black Lives Matter and Donald Trump – and recounts her experience of the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.
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5m
Patricia Lockwood on Rape Joke
She’s been called the Poet Laureate of Twitter. Patricia Lockwood achieved literary acclaim after her poem Rape Joke, about her personal experience of being raped, went viral a few years ago.