Her work - that includes more than two dozen poetry collections, not to mention works included in other collections - was an integral part of the Black Arts movement and the civil rights era.

Giovanni published her first poetry collection, Black Feeling Black Talk, in 1968. It established her as an emerging figure out of the Black Arts Movement. In it, Giovanni writes about the ...

In scintillating poems like “the devil you know ... And part of a long tradition. Back during the Black Arts Movement, poets such as Amiri Baraka and Jayne Cortez often performed spoken ...

Giovanni's words on Black pride and experience made her a pioneer of the Black Arts Movement. Nikki Giovanni, the acclaimed poet and activist known for her contributions to the Black Arts Movement ...

There was no one like Nikki Giovanni. The Black poet, writer and educator, who was born in Knoxville and died Dec. 9 at 81, understood intimately that poetry was a spoken form of art as well as a ...

a prominent figure during the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and ‘70s who was dubbed “the Princess of Black Poetry,” has died. She was 81. Giovanni died “peacefully” Monday with life ...

Two remarkable new poetry collections are reshaping conversations ... Through his work, Walrond creates connections between the New Black Arts Movement, the Black Rock Coalition, and contemporary ...

By the late 1960s, Giovanni emerged as a leading voice of the Black Arts Movement. Her debut poetry collections, Black Feeling, Black Talk and Black Judgement (both published in 1968), delivered ...

Nikki Giovanni — a renowned, award-winning poet and a leading voice in the 1960s Black Arts Movement — died in ... In dozens of poetry collections, she wrote about Black liberation and ...