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Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. [1] [2] (June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024) was an American poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator. One of the world's best-known African-American poets, [2] her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children's literature.
Giovanni died Monday in Blacksburg, Virginia at the age of 81. Her wife, Virginia C. Fowler, said she died in a hospital due to complications of… Biden mourns ‘pioneering’ poet Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni, the renowned poet who passed away on December 9, 2024, seems to me the best answer to these questions. 2024 was, on social media at least, the year of the yapper.
Nikki Giovanni appears for the "Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project" photo op during the 61st New York Film Festival at Furman Gallery on Sept. 30, 2023, in New York City.
Giovanni was a National Book Award finalist in 1973 for a prose work about her life, "Gemini." She also received a Grammy nomination for the spoken word album "The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection." In January 2009, at the request of NPR, she wrote a poem about the incoming president, Barack Obama: "I'll walk the streets. And knock on doors
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project is a 2023 documentary film directed by Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson. It explores the life and career of American poet Nikki Giovanni . It had its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, and was released in a limited release on November 3 by HBO Documentary Films prior to ...
The film utilizes vérité and archival images to give audiences a glimpse into Giovanni's mind. “A poem is not so much read as navigated,” Giovanni wrote in her in 2013 book “Chasing Utopia."
In the early media coverage of the 2003 Iraq War, a minor controversy erupted when it was revealed that Los Angeles Times photographer Brian Walski had taken two images and made a more dramatic composite. [12] "When that guy came up with the baby, I shot off ten more frames. I had just one where you could see the soldier's face.