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Nikki Giovanni

Nikki Giovanni

Author · 49 books

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni is a Grammy-nominated American poet, activist and author. She has written numerous volumes of poetry and has been honored with loads of awards, including 20 honorary degrees from national colleges and universities. Her poems are undeniably authentic distillations of black life in America. She was editor of Fisk University's literary magazine. She lives in Blacksburg, Virginia, where she is a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech.

Series

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Marvel Press Novels

Series · 26 books

Books

A Dialogue

1971

A Good Cry

What We Learn From Tears and Laughter

2017

A Library

2022

A Poetic Equation

Conversations Between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker

1974

Being Alive Is A Good Idea

A Wide-Ranging Conversation with Nikki Giovanni & Glory Edim

2021

Bicycles

2009

Black Feeling, Black Talk

1970

Black Feeling, Black Talk / Black Judgement

1970

Black Judgement

1968

Black Panther

Tales of Wakanda

2021

Blues

For All the Changes: New Poems

1999

Chasing Utopia

A Hybrid

2013

Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day

1978

Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People

1974

Gemini

An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet

1971

Grand Mothers

Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories About The Keepers Of Our Traditions

1994

Hip Hop Speaks to Children

2008

I Am Loved

2018

Knoxville, Tennessee

1994

Lincoln and Douglass

An American Friendship

2008

Love Poems

1997

Love Poems and A Good Cry

2023

Make Me Rain

Poems & Prose

2020

Mars

Photographs from the NASA Archives

2025

My House

1972

Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection

2002

On My Journey Now

Looking at African-American History Through the Spirituals

2007

Paint Me Like I Am

Teen Poems from WritersCorps

2003

Poems

1968-2020

2024

Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea

Poems and Not Quite Poems

2002

Racism 101

1994

Recreation

1971

Rosa

2005

Sacred Cows...and Other Edibles

1988

Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate

Looking At The Harlem Renaissance Through Poems

1996

Spin a Soft Black Song

Poems for Children

1971

Standing in the Need of Prayer

2020

The 100 Best African American Poems

2010

The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

2003

The Genie in the Jar

1996

The Grasshopper's Song

An Aesop's Fable Revisited

2008

The New Book

Poems, Letters, Blurbs, and Things

2025

The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni

2003

The Selected Poems, 1968-1995

1996

The Sun Is So Quiet

1996

The Women and the Men

1975

Those Who Ride the Night Winds

1983

Vacation Time

1981

What You Wish For

A Book for Darfur

2011