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5 days ago · Nikki Giovanni, Matty Matheson. Play Episode 53:59. Considered one of the world’s greatest living poets, Nikki Giovanni carved out a revolutionary legacy during the civil rights era with...
4 days ago · In “Legacies,” American poet Nikki Giovanni elicits the unspoken words that hang between a grandmother and a young girl. Both are aware of their limited time together. And yet, the young girl resists her grandmother’s invitation to learn to make rolls, “poking her lips out” in impudence. Still, she does so not out of disinterest, but ...
20 hours ago · Text: “Ego Tripping (There May Be a Reason Why)” by Nikki Giovanni. I was born in the congo. I walked to the fertile crescent and built. the sphinx. I designed a pyramid so tough that a star. that only glows every one hundred years falls. into the center giving divine perfect light. I am bad.
5 days ago · In the hardback book version, "The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni," the poem is continued on the next page (pp. 203 - 204). The two additional stanzas are: she was nervous when he was there and anxious when he wasn't life to her was a crude cruel joke played on the livers she boxed her life like a special private seed planting it in her ...
Jun 30, 2024 · Best Poems of Nikki Giovanni . And I Have You; Choices; You Came, Too; Beautiful Black Men; Ego Tripping
3 days ago · Hey Y’all, Last week, I facilitated a workshop during the Millsaps McMullan Creative Writing Workshop. My topic was “Answering Poetic Haunting: The Call and Response Metatextual Nature of Poetry,” in which I discussed having spent much of my adult life haunted by six poems:
4 days ago · Rosa, Nikki Giovanni …written by a BIPOC or LGBTQ+ author. Yellowface, R.F. Kuang …written by an Indigenous author. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, Shane Hawk (Editor, Contributor) …chosen because of the cover. At Night All Blood is Black, David Diop …of short stories or essays.
