Nikki Giovanni died this week, at the age of eighty-one, as that rarest of things: a best-selling poet. Her work burst onto ...

Nikki Giovanni was a one-of-a-kind writing talent who tackled everything from racism to love to life and death in her works.

Unlike many of her Black Arts contemporaries, she honed her voice in poems about the comforts of home and domesticity and the particular strengths and joys of being a woman. She insisted that her ...

"Aldon Nielsen's Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism provides a fine combination of advocacy and intense, careful research. ...Nielsen's book should serve as an important ...

Author of more than 25 books, she was a born confessor and performer whom fans came to know well from her work, her readings ...

Nikki Giovanni, a prominent poet, civil rights activist and educator, has died at 81. 'We will forever be grateful for the ...

Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who rose from borrowing money to release her first book to ...

Nikki Giovanni did not dream of being a writer, but her writing left an indelible mark on America and the world.