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 ...

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

F. Willis Johnson 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 of the Black ...

While the poem celebrates Giovanni's memories of Knoxville and ... “We point back to Nikki all the time in how we show up and how we perform our activism … and how we use our creativity ...

Nikki Giovanni: Mommy, my mother ... And I think that’s all that poem says. I think it’s all poetry because that’s the way I write. But I like those stories that I did in “Chasing Utopia ...

That's what "Mama" Nikki Giovanni meant to Chicago Poet Laureate Avery R ... about my hard childhood / and never understand that / all the while I was quite happy," Giovanni wrote in "Nikki ...

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr., one of the ... A public graveside burial service for Giovanni, an internationally recognized poet and provocateur, will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday ...

When Nikki Giovanni ... everywhere, y’all. Search for her online and heed her call: Take your smile and your love to the folk who love you. You and you and you sound like a poet, too.

“All I know is the she is the most cowardly ... She also received a Grammy nomination for the spoken word album “The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection.” In January 2009, at the request ...