Ohhh nooo. Nikki Giovanni was responsible for turning me onto reading in my senior year after I heard her poetry and jazz album on the radio. A poetry elective class teacher back then said she wasn’t a poet. I dis-enrolled and kept reading her poems well into my college years.
Yes drink definitely. I have at least three other books by her that I need to locate. I remember reading her memoir Gemini in my freshman year, I believe. Unfortunately I no longer have her albums but maybe they’re available for download. What a beautiful person.
13-Year-Old me had an album of hers called "like a ripple on a pond" and I was just obsessed. So here I am. This hippie kid living in the suburbs and Nikki Giovanni was speaking to me. The truth is universal. And talent can be recognized by anybody.
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I also watch the Baldwin/Giovanni conversation regularly as I find it inspiring and grounding.
🙏🏽❤️📌
Meanwhile, “Well known band from Liverpool calls it quits.”
https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/12/clahs-giovannimemoriam.html