Virginia Tech is set to honor the late poet Nikki Giovanni, in two different ways this weekend. On Sunday at the Cube in the ...

A team of Virginia Tech faculty and students is helping people understand the late Nikki Giovanni’s poems in a new and ...

Near the end of one of Nikki Giovanni’s well-known poems “Ego Tripping,” she writes, “I cannot be comprehended without my ...

The Giles County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday that it had arrested a 48-year-old man and charged him with attempted ...

Virginia Tech English Professor, Nikki Giovanni speaks closing remarks at a convocation to honor the victims of a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., on April 17, 2007.

Giovanni, the National Book Award finalist and Grammy-nominated poet, died Monday at 81. She was in Blacksburg, Virginia, where she taught at Virginia Tech for 35 years before she retired in 2022.

a fellow faculty member at Virginia Tech. She was born Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr. in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was soon called “Nikki” by her older sister. She was 4 when her family moved ...

Yolande Cornelia “Nikki ... Aside from Giovanni’s well-known work in poetry and her famous poem Black Feeling Black Talk, Giovanni was familiar to the Virginia Tech English department ...

It would be trite to call Nikki Giovanni a force ... In 1987, Giovanni was hired as a visiting professor in a most unlikely place: Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. The one-time military school tucked ...

Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr ... black liberal arts college. Giovanni spent much of the latter half of her life as a professor at Virginia Tech in the school's Department of ...

Photo by Andrew Adkins for Virginia Tech. Literary legend and retired Virginia Tech professor Nikki Giovanni completed her final chapter on Monday, December 9, 2024. Named by Oprah Winfrey as one ...