She wants us to create, celebrate and continue liberation through love and language ... resisting beautifully as she did. Nikki Giovanni showed us that poetry could be a path to liberation.

She wants us to create, celebrate and continue liberation through love and language ... resisting beautifully as she did. Nikki Giovanni showed us that poetry could be a path to liberation.

On Dec.19, friends, family, fans and community members gathered at Spring Grove Cemetery to say their final goodbyes to Nikki Giovanni ... and a poem recitation from author Renée Watson.

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 confront this latest unknown. “i hope ...

Saxophonist/Composer Javon Jackson And Poet Nikki Giovanni Nominated For NAACP Image Award In 'Outstanding Jazz Album' ...

"We are thankful that Nikki kept the vision alive ... The service included heartfelt readings of Giovanni's poem "Knoxville, Tennessee," a love letter to the city, and reflected her fondest ...

On the evening of December 9, I read about the death of legendary poet and educator Nikki Giovanni while searching for something on the Internet. What a tremendous loss. I thought I was going to cry.

This included poems about the assassination of Martin ... about other things she encountered in life, one being queer love. Nikki Giovanni wrote over 30 books. Many were children’s books ...

The most exciting part of this year for me was all the amazing books I got to read. There is not a book ban on this earth ...

Yeats, wrote ruefully about his waning poetic powers in “The Circus Animal’s Desertion,” published in The Atlantic in January ...