Nikki Giovanni
![Giovanni speaking at [[Emory University]] in 2008](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Nikki_Giovanni_speaking_at_Emory_University_2008.jpg)
Giovanni gained initial fame in the late 1960s as one of the foremost authors of the Black Arts Movement. Influenced by the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement of the period, her early work provides a strong, militant African-American perspective, leading one writer to dub her the "Poet of the Black Revolution". During the 1970s, she began writing children's literature, and co-founded a publishing company, NikTom Ltd, to provide an outlet for other African-American women writers. Over subsequent decades, her works discussed social issues, human relationships, and hip hop. Poems such as "Knoxville, Tennessee" and "Nikki-Rosa" have been frequently re-published in anthologies and other collections.
Giovanni has received numerous awards and holds 27 honorary degrees from various colleges and universities. She has also been given the key to over two dozen cities. Giovanni has been honored with the NAACP Image Award seven times. One of her more unique honors was having a South America bat species, ''Micronycteris giovanniae'', named after her in 2007.
Giovanni is proud of her Appalachian roots and works to change the way the world views Appalachians and Affrilachians.
Giovanni has taught at Queens College, Rutgers, and Ohio State, and was a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech until September 1, 2022. After the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, she delivered a chant-poem at a memorial for the shooting victims. Provided by Wikipedia
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I am loved : poems by Giovanni, Nikki
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2018
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Blues : for all the changes : new poems by Giovanni, Nikki
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A good cry what we learn from tears and laughter by Giovanni, Nikki
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017
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A library by Giovanni, Nikki
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Make me rain poems & prose by Giovanni, Nikki
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Knoxville, Tennessee by Giovanni, Nikki
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A Good Cry : What We Learn from Tears and Laughter by Giovanni, Nikki
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Lincoln and Douglass an American friendship by Giovanni, Nikki
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The collected poetry of Nikki Giovanni, 1968-1998 / 1968-1998 by Giovanni, Nikki
New York : William Morrow, 2003
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The genie in the jar by Giovanni, Nikki
New York : H. Holt, 1996
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Conversations with Nikki Giovanni by Giovanni, Nikki
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A library by Giovanni, Nikki
[Fairfax, Virginia] : [Library Ideas, LLC], 2023
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My house : poems by Giovanni, Nikki
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Make me rain : poems & prose by Giovanni, Nikki
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Make me rain : poems & prose by Giovanni, Nikki
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Rosa by Giovanni, Nikki
New York, NY : Square Fish, 2008
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Lincoln and Douglass : an American friendship by Giovanni, Nikki
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Spin a soft Black song : poems for children by Giovanni, Nikki
New York : Square Fish/ Farrar Straus Giroux, 2012
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I am loved by Giovanni, Nikki
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I am loved : poems by Giovanni, Nikki
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