In her first two collections, Black Feeling, Black Talk (Harper Perennial, 1968) and Black Judgement (Broadside Press, 1969), Giovanni reflects on the African-American identity. Giovanni is the author of numerous children books and poetry collections, including Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid (William Morrow, 2013), Bicycles: Love Poems (William Morrow, 2009) Acolytes (HarperCollins, 2007) The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 (Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2003) Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not-Quite Poems (William Morrow, 2002) Blues For All the Changes: New Poems (William Morrow, 1999) Love Poems (William Morrow, 1997) and Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni (University Press of Mississippi, 1996). After receiving her bachelor of arts degree in 1967, she organized the Black Arts Festival in Cincinnati before entering graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. In 1960, she entered Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she worked with the school's Writer's Workshop and edited the literary magazine. Yolanda Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 7, 1943, and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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