Nikki Giovanni
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 Nikki Giovanni facts

• 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, the NAACP Image Award, and has been nominated for a Grammy Award, for her Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection
• Additionally, she has recently been named as one of Oprah Winfrey’s twenty-five “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"
• During the 1970s, she began writing children's literature, and co-founded a publishing company, NikTom,Ltd to provide an outlet for other African American women writers
• Over subsequent decades, her works discussed social issues, human relationships, and hip-hop
• Poems such as "Knoxville, Tennessee," and "Nikki-Rosa" have been frequently re-published in anthologies and other collections
• Giovanni has taught at Queens College, Rutgers, and Ohio State, and is currently a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech
• Following the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, she delivered a chant-poem at a memorial for the shooting victims