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 ...

Nikki Giovanni, the writer and poet who died this week, taught Black history educator Abigail Henry much about Mars, freedom dreaming, and the power of a good cry.

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

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 ...

When Nikki Giovanni uttered these words in January 2007 at the end of a two-hour interview, she shifted my life’s focus from covering the news to making art with it. Her matter-of-fact ...

A note from Wild Card host Rachel Martin: There are so many words I could use to describe Nikki Giovanni: poet, revolutionary, queer icon, feminist, space enthusiast, mother and grandmother, legend.

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 ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. – Virginia Tech honored the life and memory of longtime professor and renowned poet Nikki Giovanni today at the appropriately titled “Black Love is Black Wealth: A Celebration of the ...