Nikki Giovanni*
By. Lauren phillips
nikki giovanni
Nikki Giovanni is a Virginia-based poet.
Selected Works:
Blues: For All the Changes, Bicycles: Love Poems, Gemini
Recognition:
1973 National Book Award finalist (Gemini); 2004 Grammy nominee for spoken-word poetry (The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection); multiple NAACP Image Awards
nikki giovanni now
“Poetry prevents everybody from feeling lonely,” says Nikki Giovanni. Her latest book, “Chasing Utopia,” is a collection of poetry, recipes and short stories.
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In 1968, she attended University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University and also published her first poetry book called "Black Feeling Black Talk." In her early life, she was so-called the Princess of Black Poetry, National Treasure, and one of Oprah Winfrey's twenty-five Living Legends.
Nikki Giovanni was known for so many honors and awards that she's received. She's received honors and awards from the NAACP Image Awards and was #4 on the Los Angeles Times Bestseller list, which is rare for a book of poems.
Throughout the years of her career, she was called the Woman of the year by Mademoiselle Magazine, The Ladies Home Journal, and Ebony Magazine. People call her the Outstanding Woman of Tennessee and tapped her for the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame. She also received awards from Tennessee and Virginia, became the first recipient of the Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award, and the Langston Hughes Medal for poetry.
Nikki Giovanni was known for so many honors and awards that she's received. She's received honors and awards from the NAACP Image Awards and was #4 on the Los Angeles Times Bestseller list, which is rare for a book of poems.
Throughout the years of her career, she was called the Woman of the year by Mademoiselle Magazine, The Ladies Home Journal, and Ebony Magazine. People call her the Outstanding Woman of Tennessee and tapped her for the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame. She also received awards from Tennessee and Virginia, became the first recipient of the Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award, and the Langston Hughes Medal for poetry.
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Character traits
Furthermore, these traits may have been inherited from, or at least encouraged by, her grandmother, Louvenia Watson, herself assertive and outspoken, as one learns in Giovanni’s autobiographical statement, Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet (1971). As Giovanni grew older, these traits merged into the one which brought her to the attention of both the literary world and the political establishment during the 1960’s: militance.
childhood
As a child, Giovanni moved with her parents to the black middle-class suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio, where her mother worked as a supervisor for the Welfare Department and her father worked as a social worker.
poems
she has a lot of poems
quouts
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person