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

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

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The three-hour drive Kwame Alexander had taken countless times from Nikki Giovanni’s home in Christiansburg, Virginia, to Washington, D.C., felt different on Thursday morning. Three days prior ...

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 ...

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.