
Series
Books

Vacation Time
1981

Paint Me Like I Am
Teen Poems from WritersCorps
2003

Love Poems and A Good Cry
2023

Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
Looking At The Harlem Renaissance Through Poems
1996

On My Journey Now
Looking at African-American History Through the Spirituals
2007

Knoxville, Tennessee
1994

Rosa
2005

A Good Cry
What We Learn From Tears and Laughter
2017

A Library
2022

The Genie in the Jar
1996

Make Me Rain
Poems & Prose
2020

The Selected Poems, 1968-1995
1996

The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni
2003

Love Poems
1997

Bicycles
2009

Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea
Poems and Not Quite Poems
2002

Racism 101
1994

Black Panther
Tales of Wakanda
2021

Black Judgement
1968

Hip Hop Speaks to Children
2008

Black Feeling, Black Talk
1970

Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection
2002

Lincoln and Douglass
An American Friendship
2008

Standing in the Need of Prayer
2020

Spin a Soft Black Song
Poems for Children
1971

Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
1978

The Women and the Men
1975

I Am Loved
2018

Blues
For All the Changes: New Poems
1999

Black Feeling, Black Talk / Black Judgement
1970

Recreation
1971

Those Who Ride the Night Winds
1983

Gemini
An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet
1971

The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
2003

Being Alive Is A Good Idea
A Wide-Ranging Conversation with Nikki Giovanni & Glory Edim
2021

Chasing Utopia
A Hybrid
2013

A Poetic Equation
Conversations Between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker
1974

My House
1972

Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People
1974

Grand Mothers
Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories About The Keepers Of Our Traditions
1994

The 100 Best African American Poems
2010

The Grasshopper's Song
An Aesop's Fable Revisited
2008