This is a reprint of a 2022 column by John Job in which he interviewed Nikki Giovanni in a preview of that year's Big Ears ...

President Biden released a statement mourning Nikki Giovanni, calling her a “pioneering” poet who “used her pen to advance ...

Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr., the beloved Knoxville native and internationally recognized poet and provocateur, died ...

Giovanni read her poems about love, nostalgia and race to audiences around the world, but she never stopped loving.

Giovanni was renowned for her literary career and will serve as an inspiration for generations of Fisk University students to ...

Nikki Giovanni died this week, at the age of eighty-one, as that rarest of things: a best-selling poet. Her work burst onto ...

Nikki Giovanni did not dream of being a writer, but her writing left an indelible mark on America and the world.

Nikki Giovanni, a renowned Knoxville-born writer, educator and activist, has died at the age of 81, according to multiple ...

A plaque honoring Giovanni is located at the Cal Johnson Recreation Center, just across from where her grandparents lived.

Renowned poet, author, and activist Nikki Giovanni dies at 81 after a recent diagnosis of lung cancer. Her legacy will live ...

Keeping the renowned poet’s memory alive is personal for Beck Cultural Exchange Center President Reneé Kesler.

Nikki Giovanni — a poet, author, activist and longtime Virginia Tech professor — was an icon in life whose work with echo for generations.