Nikki Giovanni
American poet, writer and activist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. One of the world's most well-known African-American poets, her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children's literature. She has won numerous awards, including the Langston Hughes Medal and the NAACP Image Award. She has been nominated for a Grammy Award for her poetry album, The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection. Additionally, she has been named as one of Oprah Winfrey's 25 "Living Legends".
Nikki Giovanni's Published Works
Published Works
- Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgement (1968) (16)
- Images of Blacks in American Culture: A Reference Guide to Information Sources (1988) (12)
- Reflections, Riffs and Remembrances: The Black Queer Studies in the Millennium Conference (2000) (2000) (10)
- Gemini : An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet (1971) (10)
- Conversations with Nikki Giovanni (1992) (7)
- The Women and the Men (1975) (6)
- A Poetic Equation: Conversations Between Nikki Giovanni And Margaret Walker (1974) (5)
- The Bean Eaters (2019) (4)
- Sacred Cows-- And Other Edibles (1988) (4)
- The genie in the jar (1996) (3)
- Campus Racism 101. (1994) (3)
- The Sun Is So Quiet (1996) (3)
- Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People (1973) (3)
- Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking At The Harlem Renaissance Through Poems (1996) (3)
- Cotton candy on a rainy day: Poems (1978) (2)
- Those Who Ride the Night Winds (1983) (2)
- On My Journey Now: Looking at African-American History Through the Spirituals (2007) (2)
- My house; poems (1972) (2)
- Bailey's Café: From Novel to Play (2000) (1)
- Harold Bloom's Charge that Multiculturalism in American Poetry Is a Mask for Mediocrity. (1998) (1)
- Nikki Giovanni (2020) (1)
- Appalachian elders : a Warm Hearth sampler (1991) (1)
- A Talk with Nikki Giovanni (1975) (1)
- Vacation time: Poems for children (1980) (1)
- Spices (2013) (0)
- Y.O.U. : (your own universe) (1993) (0)
- Nikki Giovanni: an afternoon of poetry (1989) (0)
- A Distant Star Called Possibility (2009) (0)
- Night Comes Softly (1970) (0)
- It’s Just Love (2012) (0)
- Digging in the Crates Vol. 3: Gender & Hip Hop with Nikki Giovanni (2017) (0)
- A Theory of Patience (1996) (0)
- African American Literature (1998) (0)
- Conversation (2000) (0)
- Grand Fathers: Reminiscences, Poems, Recipes, and Photos of the Keepers of Our Traditions (1999) (0)
- Giovanni, Nikki : poetry reading; February 11th, 1977 (1977) (0)
- Affirming My Birth Date Though I Have No Intention of Running For Any Public Office (2012) (0)
- A PATCHWORK QUILT: 1993 Feb. 21-25 (1997) (0)
- Nikki Giovanni Catches the Train (1999) (0)
- Three Letters, One Song & A Refrain: Best African-American Fiction (2010) (0)
- A Visit with Nikki Giovanni (2015) (0)
- Spices (2012) (0)
- The Women Gather (1975) (0)
- Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories About The Keepers Of Our Traditions (1994) (0)
- When My Phone Trembles, and: The Scared and the Vulnerable (2013) (0)
- The International Open (Tennis Players vs. Poets) (2012) (0)
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