NEW YORK (AP) — Two months after her death, poet Nikki Giovanni has been awarded one of the top honors for her art form, the ...

Nikki Giovanni – the acclaimed poet ... "I know I was born in Knoxville, but I grew up in Cincinnati," she said in a 2013 speech before a gathering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Nikki Giovanni, the renowned poet who passed away ... s sexual assaults but after his infamous 2004 “Poundcake” speech, when he made his bread and butter calling Black youth ungrateful because ...

In the wake of Nikki Giovanni’s passing on Monday ... where she was a professor, giving a rousing speech in the wake of the 2007 massacre there. She championed Tupac Shakur when several of ...

Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. Nikki Giovanni, a transcendent American poet, knew her life was quickly ...

Nikki Giovanni, a renowned poet and proud Knoxville native, has closed her final chapter. She died Dec. 9 at the age of 81. Giovanni is a civil rights icon and one of the world's most famed ...

Nikki Giovanni was awarded the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Poetry Society of America on Feb. 26, two months ...

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

Two months after her death, poet Nikki Giovanni has been awarded one of the top honors for her art form, the Frost Medal for lifetime achievement NEW YORK -- Two months after her death ...