Nikki Giovanni (Poet) - Age, Birthday, Bio, Facts, Family, Net Worth, Height & More

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. One of the world's most well-known African-American poets, her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children's literature. She has won numerous awards, including the Langston Hughes Medal and the NAACP Image Award. She has been nominated for a Grammy Award for her poetry album, The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection. Additionally, she has been named as one of Oprah Winfrey's 25 "Living Legends". Giovanni gained initial fame in the late 1960s as one of the foremost authors of the Black Arts Movement. Influenced by the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement of the period, her early work provides a strong, militant African-American perspective, leading one writer to dub her the "Poet of the Black Revolution".

Born	Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr, June 7, 1943, Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation	Writer, poet, activist, educator
Education	Fisk University (BA), University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University
Period	1968–present

About Nikki Giovanni

Poet Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States on June 7, 1943. She dies at the age of 81, on December 9, 2024.

Bicycles: Love Poems, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, and Black Judgement are works by African-American poet, author, and educator. Her children's novels include Spin a Soft Black Song and The Sun is So Quiet.

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Nikki Giovanni before becoming famous

Nikki Giovanni was born in the Zodiac sign Gemini (The Twins), and 1943 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Goat (羊).

She attended Fisk University, Penn State University, and Columbia University, among others.

Achievement of Nikki Giovanni

On the day of the Virginia Tech campus massacre, April 16, 2007, she was a creative writing instructor at the institution."We are Virginia Tech...We Will Survive", she screamed, becoming a rallying cry for traumatized students.

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Nikki Giovanni's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

She was born in Tennessee and raised in Ohio. Her son's name is Thomas.

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All Things Considered, a National Public Radio program, commissioned Giovanni to write a poem marking President ^{US President}Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009.

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Nikki Giovanni (Poet) - Age, Birthday, Bio, Facts, Family, Net Worth, Height & More

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