BLOG SESSION
December 15, 2017
Nikki Giovanni ~ Poet
Welcome back Poets & Poetry Lovers ~ we are back for another great Blog Session about another famous Poet that you will learn a great deal about during this Session. We'll be discussing poet Nikki Giovanni. Grab your Journals so that you may take notes concerning the accomplishments and background of this famous poet that you may not have heard about up until now . . .
Journal Notes
Nikki Giovanni
Born June 7, 1943
WHO IS Nikki Giovanni?
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) 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, the NAACP Image Award. She has been nominated for a Grammy Award, for her album The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection. Additionally, she has recently been named as one of Oprah Winfrey’s 25 "Living Legends".
Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee into a family of mixed African American and Italian ancestry and grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1960, Giovanni began her studies at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee and graduated with honors in history. She received a bachelor of arts degree in 1967. She gave birth to Thomas Watson Giovanni, her only child, in 1969. She has been a professor of writing and literature at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University since 1987, and continues to tour nationwide. She is also fascinated by space and space travel.
Giovanni is a breast cancer survivor who contributed an introduction to the book ~ Breaking the Silence: Inspirational Stories of Black Cancer Survivors.
Giovanni has written more than two dozen books, including volumes of poetry, illustrated children’s books, and three collections of essays. The civil rights and black power movements informed her early poetry, collected in Black Feeling, Black Talk (1968), Black Judgement (1968), and Re: Creation (1970). Giovanni then wrote poems for children throughout the next decade.
Those Who Ride the Night Winds (1983) acknowledged notable black figures. Giovanni collected her essays in the 1988 volume Sacred Cows...and Other Edibles. Her three most recent works are Love Poems, Blues: For All the Changes, and Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea; Poems and Not Quite Poems.
Giovanni was also featured on the track Ego Trip By Nikki Giovanni on Blackalicious' 2000 album Nia.
Nikki Giovanni
Poet Nikki Giovanni has been telling it like it is for over three decades. The award-winning writer, activist and educator became famous during the Black Power and Black Arts movement, delivering poems with themes of unapologetic blackness and feminist thought, all while donning her signature afro.
Nikki Giovanni Poems
All I Gotta Do
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Click on any of the links above to read any of Nikki Giovanni's Poems
[Courtesy of Poetry Soup.com]
Read More About Nikki Giovanni in the exclusive interview with theGrio, Giovanni opens up about how writing the book helped her heal after the loss of dear friend and fellow poet Dr. Maya Angelou, why she’s proud of this generation of Black Lives Matter activists and why she’s betting her money that President Donald Trump will be impeached before the end of his first term.
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