It's easy to feel lost in a nation that has lost its bearings. But Nikki Giovanni's life and works will comfort us as we ...

Earlier this month, we lost a voice that rang for decades with the clarity of truth and the warmth of eternal joy. Nikki Giovanni, the acclaimed poet, professor and icon ...

Poet Nikki Giovanni’s death on Dec. 9, 2024, hit me in a way that I had not expected. First, I didn’t know that she was ...

Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr ... literally was born in my backyard, who came from right where I came from,” Kesler told Knox News last year. Her 1970 poem "Knoxville, Tennessee ...

That's what "Mama" Nikki Giovanni ... and placed it at the Poetry Foundation in her honor as an impromptu memorial. Young encouraged other poets touched by Giovanni's influence to do the same. "God ...

That's what "Mama" Nikki ... Poetry Foundation in her honor as an impromptu memorial. Young encouraged other poets touched by Giovanni's influence to do the same. "God blessed me with enough ...

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr., one of ... 1960s as part of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni wrote more than two dozen bestselling poetry collections and children's books during her ...

When Nikki Giovanni ... the lines of poetry I’d scrawled in composition books and notepads for years and leave the rest to her. Less than three months later, I confronted my fear of my artistic ...

She also received a Grammy nomination for the spoken word album “The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection.” In January 2009, at the request of NPR, she wrote a poem about the incoming president ...