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 ...
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Knoxville-native Nikki Giovanni died on Dec. 9, but her legacy lives on. From new tributes, a documentary and the work she ...
They say never meet your heroes, but I met this architect of Black joy in 2017 and learned an important life lesson ...
Nikki Giovanni, a renowned poet and proud Knoxville native, has closed her final chapter. She died Dec. 9 at the age of 81. Giovanni is a civil rights icon and one of the world's most famed ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who rose from borrowing money to release her first book to decades as a literary celebrity sharing her blunt and ...
Giovanni was a National Book Award finalist in 1973 for a prose work about her life, “Gemini.” She also received a Grammy nomination for the spoken word album “The Nikki Giovanni Poetry ...
That's what "Mama" Nikki Giovanni meant to Chicago Poet ... Throughout her life, Giovanni wrote more than 25 books. This includes 13 children's poetry books, a dozen essays and conversations ...
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