When Giovanni died on Dec. 9 at 81, she had written over 25 books, which include poems exploring love, music and even the ...

Acclaimed poet Nikki Giovanni will be laid to rest in Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery. The author was born in Knoxville, ...

A former student of Nikki Giovanni's recalls the fateful day when the poet and activist convinced him he was an artist. Then ...

Shields said there is something beautiful about the book as a printed object, and many of the pieces in the collections, ...

In her soft girl era, actress and dancer Sandhya Mridul embraces her sadness and vulnerability and spills it all in her first ...

This is what sign language poetry, a genre rooted in the sign language tradition, looks like: a feast for the eyes.

Her works not only earned critical acclaim but an enduring position as one of the foremost luminaries of Black liberation.

A key figure of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ’70s, the poet and activist is celebrated for her illuminating works ...

Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr., the beloved Knoxville native and internationally recognized poet and provocateur, died ...

I first encountered Nikki Giovanni, who died on Monday at the age of 81, in the pages of the 1973 edition of the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. It was the ...

Nikki Giovanni was a world-renowned poet, but she had a profound impact at Virginia Tech, her teaching home for more than 30 ...

Poet, activist, and educator Nikki Giovanni, 81, died on December 9. She used language as a tool to inspire, celebrate, and ...