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Nikki Giovanni
Author · 42 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

Books

Vacation Time book cover

Vacation Time

1981

Paint Me Like I Am book cover

Paint Me Like I Am

Teen Poems from WritersCorps

2003

Love Poems and A Good Cry book cover

Love Poems and A Good Cry

2023

Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate book cover

Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate

Looking At The Harlem Renaissance Through Poems

1996

On My Journey Now book cover

On My Journey Now

Looking at African-American History Through the Spirituals

2007

Knoxville, Tennessee book cover

Knoxville, Tennessee

1994

Rosa book cover

Rosa

2005

A Good Cry book cover

A Good Cry

What We Learn From Tears and Laughter

2017

A Library book cover

A Library

2022

The Genie in the Jar book cover

The Genie in the Jar

1996

Make Me Rain book cover

Make Me Rain

Poems & Prose

2020

The Selected Poems, 1968-1995 book cover

The Selected Poems, 1968-1995

1996

The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni book cover

The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni

2003

Love Poems book cover

Love Poems

1997

Bicycles book cover

Bicycles

2009

Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea book cover

Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea

Poems and Not Quite Poems

2002

Racism 101 book cover

Racism 101

1994

Black Panther book cover

Black Panther

Tales of Wakanda

2021

Black Judgement book cover

Black Judgement

1968

Hip Hop Speaks to Children book cover

Hip Hop Speaks to Children

2008

Black Feeling, Black Talk book cover

Black Feeling, Black Talk

1970

Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection book cover

Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection

2002

Lincoln and Douglass book cover

Lincoln and Douglass

An American Friendship

2008

Standing in the Need of Prayer book cover

Standing in the Need of Prayer

2020

Spin a Soft Black Song book cover

Spin a Soft Black Song

Poems for Children

1971

Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day book cover

Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day

1978

The Women and the Men book cover

The Women and the Men

1975

I Am Loved book cover

I Am Loved

2018

Blues book cover

Blues

For All the Changes: New Poems

1999

Black Feeling, Black Talk / Black Judgement book cover

Black Feeling, Black Talk / Black Judgement

1970

Recreation book cover

Recreation

1971

Those Who Ride the Night Winds book cover

Those Who Ride the Night Winds

1983

Gemini book cover

Gemini

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

1971

The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998 book cover

The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

2003

Being Alive Is A Good Idea book cover

Being Alive Is A Good Idea

A Wide-Ranging Conversation with Nikki Giovanni & Glory Edim

2021

Chasing Utopia book cover

Chasing Utopia

A Hybrid

2013

A Poetic Equation book cover

A Poetic Equation

Conversations Between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker

1974

My House book cover

My House

1972

Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People book cover

Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People

1974

Grand Mothers book cover

Grand Mothers

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

1994

The 100 Best African American Poems book cover

The 100 Best African American Poems

2010

The Grasshopper's Song book cover

The Grasshopper's Song

An Aesop's Fable Revisited

2008

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