Nikki Giovanni, a poet of rage and revolution ... First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet.” Ms. Giovanni celebrated her 30th birthday that year by performing at the Lincoln Center in ...

In the last years of her life, Nikki Giovanni felt her memory fading ... for “when you go to bed / and sleep.” By her 30th birthday, Giovanni was regularly publishing poems that tapped ...

When Nikki Giovanni uttered these words in January ... the latter two of whom shared her birthday, Nikki has always communed with like-minded iconoclasts and what she called “space freaks ...