In this personal essay, writer and bookseller Katie Mitchell reflects on the enduring love, legacy and literary devotion of ...

Virginia Tech celebrated the legacy of esteemed poet, mentor, and artist Nikki Giovanni inside its Center for the Arts on ...

A team of Virginia Tech faculty and students is helping people understand the late Nikki Giovanni’s poems in a new and ...

Virginia Tech is set to honor the late poet Nikki Giovanni, in two different ways this weekend. On Sunday at the Cube in the ...

Poet and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni, a prominent figure during the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and '70s who was dubbed "the Princess of Black Poetry," has died. She was 81.

Near the end of one of Nikki Giovanni’s well-known poems “Ego Tripping,” she writes, “I cannot be comprehended without my ...

To support. To love. To care. That's what "Mama" Nikki Giovanni meant to Chicago Poet Laureate Avery R. Young. Colleagues through the arts community, Young revered Giovanni's work and shared a few ...

“I am a space freak …” the writer Nikki Giovanni, who died this week at age 81, told the New York Times in 2021. “I got to sleep on the side of the bed facing the outside wall, so there ...

Nikki Giovanni, a renowned poet and proud Knoxville native, has closed her final chapter. She died Dec. 9 at the age of 81. Giovanni is a civil rights icon and one of the world's most famed ...