NIKKI GOVIONNI

Nikki Giovanni

• She was born in June 7, 1943 (age 72), Knoxville, TN
• Parents: Yolande Cornelia, Sr., Jones "Gus" Giovann
• Although she grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio,

NIKKI AWARDS

• American books awards

SONGS

• Nikki-Rose
• The reason I like chocolate
• Great pex whitey

Nikki Giovanni is one of the best-known African-American poets who reached prominence during the late 1960s and early 1970s

POEMS

• Winter poem
• Woman poem
• Just a NY poem
• My tower
• A peom

QUOTES

• Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
• We love because it's the only true adventure.
• If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

FACT

• She was a poet and a writer
• She has cancer
• She attened Fisk University,the University of Pennsylvania,and Columbia University
• She hasa son named Thomas

In 1967 she graduated from Fisk University and published her first poetry collection ,Black Feeling. It was followed by the poetry collections Black Talk in 1968 and Black Judgment in 1970. After the birth of her son in 1969 Giovanni reading poems set to gospel and other black music was a bestdeller in 1971.

WINTER POEM

• Once a snowflake fell on my brow and I loved
• It so much and I kissed it and it was happy and called its cusions and brother and a web of snow engulfed me then
• I reached to love them all and I squeezed them and they became
• Spring rain and I stood perfectly still and was a flower

She attended Fisk University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University.
She was teaching creative writing at Virginia Tech in 2007, when the April 16 campus massacre occurred. Her words, "We are Virginia Tech...We will prevail," became a rallying cry for traumatized students.

She was born in Tennessee, and she grew up in Ohio. She has a son named Thomas.
The National Public Radio program, All Things Considered, commissioned Giovanni to write a poem for the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama.

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