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In this personal essay, writer and bookseller Katie Mitchell reflects on the enduring love, legacy and literary devotion of ...
A team of Virginia Tech faculty and students is helping people understand the late Nikki Giovanni’s poems in a new and ...
Near the end of one of Nikki Giovanni’s well-known poems “Ego Tripping,” she writes, “I cannot be comprehended without my ...
Virginia Tech is set to honor the late poet Nikki Giovanni, in two different ways this weekend. On Sunday at the Cube in the ...
Virginia Tech professor and acclaimed poet Nikki Giovanni has died at the age of 81. She died peacefully with her lifelong ...
Poet and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni, a prominent figure during the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and '70s who was dubbed "the Princess of Black Poetry," has died. She was 81.
Nikki Giovanni, the writer and poet who died this week, taught Black history educator Abigail Henry much about Mars, freedom ...
To support. To love. To care. That's what "Mama" Nikki Giovanni meant to Chicago Poet Laureate Avery R. Young. Colleagues through the arts community, Young revered Giovanni's work and shared a few ...
Trailblazing poet, writer, activist, educator, and icon of the Black arts movement Nikki Giovanni passed away on Monday at the age of 81. Per NPR, Giovanni’s passing came after she was diagnosed with ...
A note from Wild Card host Rachel Martin: There are so many words I could use to describe Nikki Giovanni: poet, revolutionary, queer icon, feminist, space enthusiast, mother and grandmother, legend.
When Nikki Giovanni uttered these words in January 2007 at the end of a two-hour interview, she shifted my life’s focus from covering the news to making art with it. Her matter-of-fact ...