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Columns::February 11, 2002

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Poet Nikki Giovanni will lecture, give reading

By Beth Roberts
beth@uga.edu

Editor’s note: The Feb. 12 reading by Maxine Kumin has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for a later date. The Web

Nikki Giovanni

version of this article differs from the print version of Columns.
American poet Yolanda (Nikki) Giovanni appears on campus this week, lecturing and giving readings of her works. Her presentation is free and open to the public.
Giovanni will speak at 7 p.m. on Feb. 13 in Georgia Hall of the Tate Student Center. Tickets are required for the lecture; they are free and available in advance from the cashier’s window at the Tate Student Center. Her appearance is sponsored by University Union.
Giovanni earned her undergraduate degree from Fisk University and attended graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania. In her first two collections, Black Feeling, Black Talk (1968) and Black Judgement (1969), she reflected on African-American identity. Recently, she has published Blues for All the Changes: New Poems (1999), Love Poems (1997) and Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni (1996). Throughout her work, her language and rhythms have reflected jazz and blues.
Giovanni received the NAACP Image Award for Literature in 1998 and the Langston Hughes Award for Distinguished Contributions to Arts and Letters in 1996. Several magazines have named her Woman of the Year, including Essence, Mademoiselle and Ladies Home Journal. She is currently professor of English and Gloria D. Smith Professor of Black Studies at Virginia Tech.

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