On the evening of December 9, I read about the death of legendary poet and educator Nikki Giovanni while searching for ...

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Nikki Giovanni ... of her 30th birthday. Get top local stories in DFW delivered to you every morning. >Sign up for NBC DFW's News Headlines newsletter. In poetry, prose and the spoken word ...

‘The Princess of Black Poetry” Nikki Giovanni has died. She was 81 years old. Giovanni’s wife said she died from complications from lung cancer, The New York Times reported. She had battled ...

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 ...

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 ...

For every midnight we have to come, there is a poem. So, I’m grateful for all she’s given,” she said in a statement. “The loss of an artist like Nikki Giovanni isn’t just a loss for ...