Tag: Nikki Giovanni

• Honoring the Best in African American Poetry

  When working on “The 100 Best African–American Poems”, award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni decided to cheat. “Including just one hundred would only get me to the 1970s,” says Giovanni, a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech. “I definitely wanted to get some younger voices in too so there are actually 220 poems but they’re only numbered…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  March 4, 2021

  Poetry

  African-American poems, Nikki Giovanni, Poetry