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REST IN POWER 💔 Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her ...

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I wrote a good omelet…and ate a hot poem…after loving you.” The author of those delightful words, poet and professor Nikki ...

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Fresh off the heels of their recent Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album for their three-part spoken world ...

I first encountered Nikki Giovanni, who died on Monday at the age of 81, in the pages of the 1973 edition of the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. It was the ...

Nikki Giovanni, the renowned poet and Black queer icon, has died at age 81. Giovanni died Monday in a hospital in Blacksburg, ...