There was no one like Nikki Giovanni. The Black poet, writer and educator, who was born in Knoxville and died Dec. 9 at 81, understood intimately that poetry was a spoken form of art as well as a ...
Nikki Giovanni, a renowned poet and proud Knoxville native, has closed her final chapter. She died Dec. 9 at the age of 81. Giovanni is a civil rights icon and one of the world's most famed African ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The world has lost a literary giant, a cultural icon, and an unyielding voice for justice. Nikki Giovanni, born Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr., passed away on December 9, 2024, at the ...
"The New Book" collects the late poet's final thoughts, revealing "even more of who she always was" as her health declined ...
The opening of an exhibit containing words from two Nikki Giovanni poems coincides with a Celebration of Life for the author and poet on Sunday, June 8, 2025 at Virginia Tech. Courtesy of Virginia ...
NEW YORK (AP) - Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first book to spending decades as a literary celebrity who shared blunt and ...
Giovanni was nominated prior to her death in December 2024. Nikki Giovanni was awarded the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Poetry Society of America on Feb. 26, two months after her death.
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