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“You sound like a poet.” When Nikki Giovanni uttered these words in January 2007 at the end of a two-hour interview, she shifted my life’s focus from covering the news to making art with it.
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.
Nikki Giovanni, revolutionary poet and voice of Black resilience, dies at 81. TheGrio. December 9, 2024 at 11:08 PM ... One of Giovanni’s quotes from her anthology, “The Collected Poetry, 1968 ...
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 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
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
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project is a 2023 documentary film directed by Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson. It explores the life and career of American poet Nikki Giovanni . It had its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, and was released in a limited release on November 3 by HBO Documentary Films prior to ...
Nikki Giovanni appears for the "Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project" photo op during the 61st New York Film Festival at Furman Gallery on Sept. 30, 2023, in New York City.