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Professor and poet Nikki Giovanni speaks during a 2007 convocation honoring victims of the Virginia Tech shooting. (Steve Helber / Associated Press) “You sound like a poet.”
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. [1] [2] (June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024) was an American poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator. One of the world's best-known African-American poets, [2] her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children's literature.
Giovanni died Monday in Blacksburg, Virginia at the age of 81. Her wife, Virginia C. Fowler, said she died in a hospital due to complications of… Biden mourns ‘pioneering’ poet Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni, the renowned poet who passed away on December 9, 2024, seems to me the best answer to these questions. 2024 was, on social media at least, the year of the yapper.
Giovanni was a National Book Award finalist in 1973 for a prose work about her life, "Gemini." 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, Barack Obama: "I'll walk the streets. And knock on doors
Nikki Giovanni recites her poem "We Are Virginia Tech" during the May 2007 English department graduation ceremony on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. (Steve Helber / Associated Press)
8 Giovanni was Cho's creative writing teacher. 5 comments. 9 Fixing the quotes on Cho Seung-hui. 1 comment. 10 some info. 2 comments. 11 Lineage. 5 comments. 12 ...
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