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Artemis Journal 2026
Founded in 1977, Artemis Journal, an award-winning literary and visual arts publication-celebrates its 50th anniversary.
Bathed in moonlight, a single spark ignited the idea that creativity can transform misery into beauty.
A love for the written word blossomed among artists and poets, visionaries weaving a more radiant world. Like a fine French Bordeaux maturing with age, Artemis has evolved into a vessel of inspiration and connection, a chalice for our highest aspirations and cultural ideals.
Named for the Greek goddess of the moon, wilderness, light, and protection, the journal has spent five decades "illuminating darkness" with poetry, prose, and art, empowering survivors of domestic violence, amplifying Appalachian voices, and nurturing the next generation of poets.
"Fall in Love (For Artemis) If you have to fall in love, And you do, It should be with a book." Nikki Giovanni
Cover art by Michele Oka Donor "Telchine"
2026 Volume MMXXVI
Bathed in moonlight, a single spark ignited the idea that creativity can transform misery into beauty.
A love for the written word blossomed among artists and poets, visionaries weaving a more radiant world. Like a fine French Bordeaux maturing with age, Artemis has evolved into a vessel of inspiration and connection, a chalice for our highest aspirations and cultural ideals.
Named for the Greek goddess of the moon, wilderness, light, and protection, the journal has spent five decades "illuminating darkness" with poetry, prose, and art, empowering survivors of domestic violence, amplifying Appalachian voices, and nurturing the next generation of poets.
"Fall in Love (For Artemis) If you have to fall in love, And you do, It should be with a book." Nikki Giovanni
Cover art by Michele Oka Donor "Telchine"
2026 Volume MMXXVI
140 pages, Hardcover
Published August 23, 2026
About the author
Nikki Giovanni
170 books1,446 followersYolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. was an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. One of the world's most well-known African-American poets, her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children's literature. She won numerous awards, including the Langston Hughes Medal and the NAACP Image Award. She was nominated for a Grammy Award for her poetry album, The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection. Additionally, she was named as one of Oprah Winfrey's 25 "Living Legends". Giovanni was a member of The Wintergreen Women Writers Collective.
Giovanni gained initial fame in the late 1960s as one of the foremost authors of the Black Arts Movement. Influenced by the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement of the period, her early work provides a strong, militant African-American perspective, leading one writer to dub her the "Poet of the Black Revolution". During the 1970s, she began writing children's literature, and co-founded a publishing company, NikTom Ltd, to provide an outlet for other African-American women writers. Over subsequent decades, her works discussed social issues, human relationships, and hip hop. Poems such as "Knoxville, Tennessee" and "Nikki-Rosa" have been frequently re-published in anthologies and other collections.
Giovanni received numerous awards and holds 27 honorary degrees from various colleges and universities. She was also given the key to over two dozen cities. Giovanni was honored with the NAACP Image Award seven times. One of her more unique honors was having a South America bat species, Micronycteris giovanniae, named after her in 2007.
Giovanni was proud of her Appalachian roots and worked to change the way the world views Appalachians and Affrilachians.
Giovanni taught at Queens College, Rutgers, and Ohio State, and was a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech until September 1, 2022. After the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, she delivered a chant-poem at a memorial for the shooting victims.
Giovanni gained initial fame in the late 1960s as one of the foremost authors of the Black Arts Movement. Influenced by the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement of the period, her early work provides a strong, militant African-American perspective, leading one writer to dub her the "Poet of the Black Revolution". During the 1970s, she began writing children's literature, and co-founded a publishing company, NikTom Ltd, to provide an outlet for other African-American women writers. Over subsequent decades, her works discussed social issues, human relationships, and hip hop. Poems such as "Knoxville, Tennessee" and "Nikki-Rosa" have been frequently re-published in anthologies and other collections.
Giovanni received numerous awards and holds 27 honorary degrees from various colleges and universities. She was also given the key to over two dozen cities. Giovanni was honored with the NAACP Image Award seven times. One of her more unique honors was having a South America bat species, Micronycteris giovanniae, named after her in 2007.
Giovanni was proud of her Appalachian roots and worked to change the way the world views Appalachians and Affrilachians.
Giovanni taught at Queens College, Rutgers, and Ohio State, and was a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech until September 1, 2022. After the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, she delivered a chant-poem at a memorial for the shooting victims.
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