Nikki Giovanni
Writer
June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024
Credits:
Written work:
100 Best African
American Poems (2010); A Dialogue with James Baldwin (1973); A Good Cry: What
We Learn From Tears and Laughter (2017); A Library (2022); A Poetic Equation:
Conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker (1974); Acolytes (2007);
Adele Sebastian: Intro to Fine (poems) Woman in the Moon (1985); Appalachian
Elders: A Warm Hearth Sampler (1991); Artemis 2017 (Academic Journal of
southwest Virginia) (2017); Bicycles: Love Poems (2009); Black Ink: Literary
Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018); Black
Feeling, Black Talk (1968); Black Feeling, Black Talk / Black Judgement (1970);
Black Judgement (1968); Blues: For All the Changes (1999); Chasing Utopia: A
Hybrid (2013); Continuum: New and Selected Poems by Mari Evans (2012); Cotton
Candy on a Rainy Day (1978); Ego-Tripping and Other Poems For Young People
(1973); Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People Revised Edition (1993); Hip
Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (2008); I Am Loved
(2018); Knoxville, Tennessee (1994); Lincoln and Douglass: An American
Friendship (2008); Love Poems (1997); Make Me Rain (2020); My House (1972); Gemini:
An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-five Years of Being a
Black Poet (1971); Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories about
the Keepers of Our Traditions (1994); Heav'nly Tidings From the Afric Muse: The
Grace and Genius of Phillis Wheatley by Richard Kigel (2017); Night Comes
Softly: An Anthology of Black Female Voices (1970); Racism 101 / essays (1994);
Sacred Cows ... and Other Edibles (essays) (1988); Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My
Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance through Poems (1995); The
Abandoned Baobob: The Autobiography of a Woman (1991); Poetry Speaks to
Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (2005); Quilting the Black-Eyed
Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems (2002); Re: Creation (1970); Rosa (2005); Spin a
Soft Black Song (1971); The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 (2003);
The Genie in The Jar (1996); The Girls in the Circle (Just for You!) (2004); The
Grasshopper's Song: An Aesop's Fable (2008); The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni
(2003); The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni (1996); The Sun Is So Quiet (1996);
The Women and The Men (1975); Those Who Ride The Night Winds (1983); Vacation
Time: Poems for Children (1980); Woman (1978).
Music:
Cotton Candy on a Rainy
Day (1978); Every Tone A Testimony (2001); Legacies: The Poetry of Nikki
Giovanni (1976); Like a Ripple on a Pond (1973); Nikki Giovanni and the New
York Community Choir (1993); The Gospel According To Nikki Giovanni (2022); The
Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection (2002); The Reason I Like Chocolate (1976); The
Way I Feel (1975); Truth Is On Its Way (1971).
Movies and television:
27th
NAACP Image Awards (1996); 29th NAACP Image Awards (1998); American Masters (2017);
An Evening with Nikki Giovanni (2005); Appalachia: A History of Mountains and
People (2009); BET Awards 2014: Genius Talks (2014); Black Journal (1969); Brooks
People (2017); By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
(2020); Camera Three (1972); Channel 4 News (2024); Chester Himes, Reflections (1972);
Def Poetry (2002–2005); Democracy Now! (2012–2013); Furious Flower: A Video
Anthology of African American Poetry 1960-95 (1998); Get Real! Wise Women Speak
(2011); Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (2023); HBCUs: 2nd Acts (2022);
How Do Your Children Grow? (1972); Independent Lens (2021); Legends Ball (2006);
Love Life (2021); Maya Angelou And Still I Rise (2016); Mr. Soul! (2018); MU/T/T/ER
(2022); Muhammad Ali (2021); Number One with a Bullet (2008); Overheard (2018);
Say It Loud (2008); Soul! (1971–1972); Sp!t (2006); Spirit to Spirit: The
Poetry of Nikki Giovanni (1986); What's My Name: Muhammad Ali (2019); Talk Easy
with Sam Fragoso (2021); Tavis Smiley (2007–2014); Tell About the South: Voices
in Black and White (1998); The ABCs of Book Banning (2023); The Amazing Nina
Simone (2015); The Final Genocide (2021); The History Makers (2005); The Mike
Douglas Show (1974–1975); The Poets' Café (1995); The Rock Newman Show (2013); The
Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1972); Toni Morrison et les fantômes de
l'Amérique (2020); Touré Show (2017); Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel 2 (2011); What
Ever Happened to Hip Hop? (2009).
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