Unlike many of her Black Arts contemporaries, she honed her voice in poems about the comforts of home and domesticity and the ...

Knoxville-native Nikki Giovanni died on Dec. 9, but her legacy lives on. From new tributes, a documentary and the work she ...

“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.” “We love because it's the only true adventure.” “If you don't understand ...

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 ...

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

Nikki Giovanni, the “Princess of Black Poetry ... and the way poverty is viewed through white eyes. The poem’s famous closing lines – “Black love is Black wealth” – encapsulate ...

She was best known for her outspoken advocacy and ... including her Grammy-nominated “The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection.” She was a frequent guest on the PBS talk show "Soul." ...

Nikki Giovanni did not dream of being a writer, but her writing left an indelible mark on America and the world.

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 ...

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki ... be famous," Giovanni said. "That's not what I'm about. I am an artist, so what I would like is to be read." Giovanni is set to release a posthumous book of poetry ...

A small tribute to Nikki Giovanni was set up at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago on ... Giovanni to be buried in Cincinnati cemetery The famous poet will be laid to rest in Cincinnati, where ...