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Nikki Giovanni
Giovanni in 1996
誕生	(1943-06-07) 1943年6月7日（81歳） Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
職業	Writer, poet, activist, educator
国籍	United States
活動期間	1968–present
公式サイト	www.nikki-giovanni.com
ウィキポータル 文学

ヨランド　コーネリア　”ニッキ" 　ジョヴァンニ,　 ジュニア (Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. 1943年 7月7日) はアメリカ合衆国の詩人、著作家、コメンテータ、活動家、教育者である。世界で最も有名なアフリカ系アメリカ人の詩人の一人である。 彼女の作品は詩のアンソロジー、詩の録音、そしてノンフィクションのエッセイを含み、人種や社会の問題から子供の文学まで幅広い事柄を網羅している。  彼女は ラングストン・ヒューズ 賞 、 NAACP イメージ アワードなどの数々の賞を受賞している。 彼女の詩のアルバム「The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection」はグラミー賞にもノミネートされたことがある。さらに、彼女はオプラ・ウィンフリーの生きた伝説の25人の一人にノミネートされたことでも知られている。

1960年代後半にブラックアート運動の最も著名な作家の一人として最初の名声を得た。当時の公民権運動及び、ブラック・パワー運動時代の影響を受けていて、彼女の初期の作品は好戦的なアフリカ系アメリカ人の視点を与えていて、一流の作家から黒人革命の詩人と呼ばれていた。1970年代には、アフリカ系アメリカ人女性作家たちの活動の場を提供するため、ニックトム出版社を共同設立し、児童文学も書き始めた。その後数十年にわたり、彼女の作品は社会問題、人権問題、ヒップホップにおいて語られた。「テネシー州ノックスビル」や ニッキー・ローザのような詩はアンソロジーや他の文集に何度も再掲載された。数々の賞を受賞し、数々の大学から27 の名誉学位を取得した。 彼女は20を超える都市から鍵を与えられている。ジョバンニは NAACP イメージ アワードを 7 回受賞しています。最もユニークな栄誉は2007年に南アメリカのコウモリの種に彼女の名前をもとにミクロニクテリス・ジョバンニエと名付けられたことである。 ジョバンニはアパラチアにルーツを持つことを誇りに思っており、世界のアパラチア人とアフリカ人のために世界のあり方を変える活動をしている。ジョバンニはニューヨーク市立大学クイーンズ校、ラトガース大学、オハイオ州立大学で教鞭を取り、バージニア工科大学の教授である。2007年にバージニア工科大学銃乱射事件以降、彼女は射撃の犠牲者の追悼ための聖歌を唱えた。

生涯

ヨランド　コーネリア"ニッキ"ジョヴァンニ ジュニアはノックスビル (テネシー州) に生まれた。 彼女が生まれたすぐあとに, 彼女の両親が働くグレンビュースクールのあるオハイオ州シンシナティに引っ越した。1948年に家族はワイオミングに引っ越し、最初の3年間で彼女の姉のゲイリーが彼女をニッキと呼び始めた。1958年にはジョバンニはノックスビルに引っ越し、祖父母と住んで、オースティン高校に通った。1960年に彼女は高校を卒業しなくても大学に入学できる飛び入学で、祖父の母校のテネシー州ナッシュビルのフィスク大学で研究をはじめた。 彼女はすぐに女性学部長アン・チータムと衝突し、、感謝祭の休暇で帰省するために必要な許可の取得を怠った後、学部長からキャンパスを離れるよう除籍された。ジョバンニはナッシュビルに戻り、ウォルグリーンドラッグストアで働き、甥のクリストファーを養うのを助けた。1964年、ジョバンニはその秋に大学に戻るよう促したフィスク大学の新しい学部長ブランチ・マコーネル・コーワン (ニックネームはジャッキー)と話した。フィスク大学にいる間、ジョバンニは学生のSNCC（学生非暴力調整委員会）の学生分会を復活させるため学生文学雑誌「エラン」を編集し、運動におけるジェンダー問題についてのエッセイを「ブラック・ダイジェスト」に掲載し、出版した。1967年には、彼女は大学はじまって以来の優秀な成績で学士を獲得し、卒業した。卒業してすぐに、祖母のルーベニア・ワトソンが亡くなり、彼女は苦しんだ。そして、彼女は自分の死に対処するために執筆活動に転向しました。このころの詩は後の彼女のアンソロジー「ブラックフィーリング、ブラック・トーク」に収録されている。1968年にジョバンニはペンシルべニア大学の学期に出席し、ニューヨーク市に移った。彼女はコロンビア大学を短い間出席し、「ブラック・フィーリング　ブラック・トーク」を自費出版した。1969年、ジョバンニは、ラトラース大学のリビングストン校で教え始めた。彼女は 1960 年代後半から始まったブラック アーツ ムーブメントの活発なメンバーだった。その年、彼女はたった一人の息子であるトーマス・ワトソン・ジョバンニを出産した。1970年には、彼女は黒人芸術や文化を奨励し、政治的表現を許可したエンターテイメント・バラエティ・トークショーのテレビ番組Soul!に定期的に出演し始めた。モハメド・アリ、ジェームズ・ボールドウィン、ジェシー・ジャクソン、ハリー・ベラフォンテ、シドニー・ポワチエ、グラディス・ナイト、ミリアム・マケバなどの重要なゲストを迎える番組だった。ショーのゲストであるとともに、数年間、エピソードの構成と制作を手伝った。彼女は複数のアンソロジーや子ども向けの本、を出版し、1973年から1987年にかけて、スポークン・ワードのアルバムをリリースした。 1987年から大学の特別教授として、バージニア工科大学で執筆と文学を教えてきた。 NAACPのイメージ賞や芸術と文学への顕著な貢献を行ったローザ・パークやラングストン・ヒューズ賞を含む20名の名誉博士号等々の賞を受賞した。 彼女はまた、ダラス、マイアミ、ニューヨーク、ロサンジェルスを含むいくつかの異なる都市の鍵を持っている。彼女はイースト・スターのメンバーであり、ライフメンバーシップも受け取っている。全米黒人女性評議会からの推薦もあり、デルタ・シグマ・セタ会の会員でもある。ジョバンニは1990年代初頭に肺がんと診断され、何度も手術を受けた。新しい詩集「ブルース：オール・チェンジ」は1999年に出版され、自然とがんと闘うことについて綴られた。2002年にアフリカ系アメリカ人が宇宙旅行を追求する必要性についてNASAの前で話した。その後、それに似た様なことをテーマとした「キルティング・ザ・ブラック・アイズ・ピー：ポエム・アンド・ノット・キルト・ポエム」が出版された ローザ・パークス賞を受賞した最初の人物として、ヒストリー・メーカーにより彼女の人生と功績が栄誉とされている。2010 年にディラード大学から大統領名誉勲章が授与された。 2015年、彼女の詩の教育と社会への貢献がバージニア図書館のバージニアの歴史の女性を受賞する一人となった。彼女の人生と遺産が評価され、ブライアン・キングのポットキャスト「テル・ア・フレンド Tell A Friend」にインタビューを受けることにまで発展した。2022年2月8日に新しいアルバム「ザ・ゴスペル・アコーディング・ニッキー・ジョバンニ "The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni"」をリリースした。

バージニア工科大学銃乱射事件

チョ・スンヒ, the mass murderer who killed 32 people in the April 16, 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, was a student in one of Giovanni's poetry classes. Describing him as "mean" and "menacing", she approached the department chair to have Cho taken out of her class, and said she was willing to resign rather than continue teaching him. She stated that, upon hearing of the shooting, she immediately suspected that Cho might be the shooter.

Giovanni was asked by Virginia Tech president Charles Steger to give a convocation speech at the April 17 memorial service for the shooting victims (she was asked by Steger at 5 pm on the day of the shootings, giving her less than 24 hours to prepare the speech). She expressed that she usually feels very comfortable delivering speeches, but worried that her emotion would get the best of her. On April 17, 2007, at the Virginia Tech Convocation commemorating the April 16 massacre, Giovanni closed the ceremony with a chant poem, intoning:

We know we did nothing to deserve it. But neither does a child in Africa dying of AIDS. Neither do the invisible children walking the night awake to avoid being captured by a rogue army. Neither does the baby elephant watching his community being devastated for ivory. Neither does the Mexican child looking for fresh water....We are Virginia Tech.... We will prevail.

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Her speech also sought to express the idea that really terrible things happen to good people: "I would call it, in terms of writing, in terms of poetry, it's a laundry list. Because all you're doing is: This is who we are, and this is what we think, and this is what we feel, and this is why - you know?... I just wanted to admit, you know, that we didn't deserve this, and nobody does. And so I wanted to link our tragedy, in every sense, you know - we're no different from anything else that has hurt...."

She thought that ending with a thrice-repeated "We will prevail" would be anticlimactic, and she wanted to connect back with the beginning, for balance. So, shortly before going onstage, she added a closing: "We are Virginia Tech." Her performance produced a sense of unity and received a fifty-four second standing ovation from the over-capacity audience in Cassell Coliseum, including then-President George W. Bush.

文学の経歴

Nikki Giovanni (2007)

The Civil Rights Movement and Black Power movements inspired her early poetry that was collected in Black Feeling, Black Talk (1968), which sold over ten thousand copies in its first year, Black Judgement (1968), selling six thousand copies in three months, and Re: Creation (1970). All three of these early works aided in establishing Giovanni as a new voice for African Americans.(30)  In "After Mecca": Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement, Cheryl Clarke cites Giovanni as a woman poet who became a significant part of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement. Giovanni is commonly praised as one of the best African-American poets emerging from the 1960s Black Power and Black Arts Movements. Her early poetry that was collected in the late 1960s and early 1970s are seen as radical as and more militant than her later work. Her poems are described as being "politically, spiritually, and socially aware". Evie Shockley describes Giovanni as "epitomizing the defiant, unapologetically political, unabashedly Afrocentric, BAM ethos". Her work is described as conveying "urgency in expressing the need for Black awareness, unity, [and] solidarity."  Giovanni herself takes great pride in being a "Black American, a daughter, mother, and a Professor of English". (29) She has since written more than two dozen books, including volumes of poetry, illustrated children's books, and three collections of essays. Her work is said to speak to all ages and she strives to make her work easily accessible and understood by both adults and children. (29)  Her writing has been heavily inspired by African-American activists and artists. Issues of race, gender, sexuality, and the African-American family also have influenced her work. Her book Love Poems (1997) was written in memory of Tupac Shakur, and she has stated that she would "rather be with the thugs than the people who are complaining about them." Additionally, in 2007 she wrote a children's picture book titled Rosa, which centers on the life of Civil Rights leader Rosa Parks. In addition to this book reaching number three on the New York Best Seller list, it also received the Caldecott Honors Award along with its illustrator Brian Collier, receiving the Coretta Scott King award. (29)

Giovanni’s poetry reaches more readership through her active engagement with live audiences. She gave her first public reading at the New York City jazz spot, Birdland . Her public expression of “oppression, anger, and solidarity” as well as her political activism all her to reach more than just the poetic circles. After the birth of her son, Giovani recorder several of her poems with a musical backdrop of jazz and gospel. She began to travel all around the world and speak and read to a wider audience. In the 1970’s and 80’s her popularity as a speaker increased even more. In 1971 Giovani interviewed Muhammad Ali on Soul!.

Giovanni is often interviewed regarding themes pertaining to her poetry such as gender and race. In an interview entitled "I am Black, Female, Polite", Peter Bailey questions her regarding the role of gender and race in the poetry she writes. The interview looks specifically at the critically acclaimed poem "Nikki-Rosa", and questions whether it is reflective of her own childhood experiences as well as the experiences in her community. In the interview, Giovanni stresses that she did not like constantly reading the trope of the black family as a tragedy and that "Nikki-Rosa" demonstrates the experiences that she witnessed in her communities. Specifically the poem deals with black folk culture, and touches on such issues as alcoholism and domestic violence, and such issues as not having an indoor bathroom. (30)

Giovanni's poetry in the late 1960s and early 1970s addressed black womanhood and black manhood among other themes. In a book she co-wrote with James Baldwin entitled A Dialogue, the two authors speak blatantly about the status of the black male in the household. Baldwin challenges Giovanni's opinion on the representation of black women as the "breadwinners" in the household. Baldwin states, "A man is not a woman. And whether he's wrong or right.... Look, if we're living in the same house and you're my wife or my woman, I have to be responsible for that house.". Conversely, Giovanni recognizes the black man's strength, whether or not he is "responsible" for the home or economically advantaged. The interview makes it clear that regardless of who is "responsible" for the home, the black woman and black man should be dependent on one another. Such themes appeared throughout her early poetry which focused on race and gender dynamics in the black community.

Giovanni tours nationwide and frequently speaks out against hate-motivated violence. At a 1999 Martin Luther King Day event, she recalled the 1998 murders of James Byrd, Jr. and Matthew Shepard: "What's the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in Wyoming because he's gay?"

Those Who Ride the Night Winds (1983) acknowledged black figures. Giovanni collected her essays in the 1988 volume Sacred Cows ... and Other Edibles. Her more recent works include Acolytes, a collection of 80 new poems, and On My Journey Now. Acolytes is her first published volume since her 2003 Collected Poems. The work is a celebration of love and recollection directed at friends and loved ones and it recalls memories of nature, theater, and the glories of children. However, Giovanni's fiery persona still remains a constant undercurrent in Acolytes, as some of the most serious verse links her own life struggles (being a black woman and a cancer survivor) to the wider frame of African-American history and the continual fight for equality.

Giovanni's collection Bicycles: Love Poems (2009) is a companion work to her 1997 Love Poems. They touch on the deaths of both her mother and her sister, as well as the massacre on the Virginia Tech campus. "Tragedy and trauma are the wheels" of the bicycle. The first poem ("Blacksburg Under Siege: 21 August 2006") and the last poem ("We Are Virginia Tech") reflect this. Giovanni chose the title of the collection as a metaphor for love itself, "because love requires trust and balance."

In Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid (2013), Giovanni describes falling off of a bike and her mother saying, "Come here, Nikki and I will pick you up." She has explained that it was comforting to hear her mother say this, and that "it took me the longest to realize – no, she made me get up myself." Chasing Utopia continues as a hybrid (poetry and prose) work about food as a metaphor and as a connection to the memory of her mother, sister, and grandmother. The theme of the work is love relationships.

In 2004, Giovanni was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards for her album The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection. This was a collection of poems that she read against the backdrop of gospel music.(29)  She also featured on the track "Ego Trip by Nikki Giovanni" on Blackalicious's 2000 album Nia. In November 2008, a song cycle of her poems, Sounds That Shatter the Staleness in Lives by Adam Hill, was premiered as part of the Soundscapes Chamber Music Series in Taos, New Mexico.

She was commissioned by National Public Radio's All Things Considered to create an inaugural poem for President Barack Obama. Giovanni read poetry at the Lincoln Memorial as a part of the bi-centennial celebration of Lincoln's birth on February 12, 2009.

Giovani was part of the 2016 Writer’s Symposium by the Sea at Loma Nazarene University . The University of California Television (UCTV) published the readings of Giovanni at the symposium. In October 2017 Giovani published her newest collection A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter. This collection includes poems that pay homage to the greatest influences on her life that have passed away, including close friend Maya Angelou whom passed away in 2014 . Giovani often reads from her book. In one reading she shares her poem, “I Married My Mother.” In 2017, Giovanni presented at a TEDx event. Here she read the poem, “My Sister and Me.” She called her and her sister, “Two little chocolate girls.” After reading the poem she claims, “Sometimes you write a poem because damnit, you want to.”

文学賞受賞歴・候補歴等

Sources:

• Keys to more than two dozen American cities, including New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and New Orleans

• State Historical markers in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Lincoln Heights, Ohio

• Seven NAACP Image Awards:

• • Love Poems (1998)

• • Blues: For All the Changes (1999)

• • Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea (2003)

• • Acolytes (2008)

• • Hip Hop Speaks to Children (2009)

• • 100 Best African American Poems (2011)

• • Bicycles (2010)

• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1968)

• Harlem Cultural Council (1969)

• Woman of the Year, Ebony Magazine (1970)

• Woman of the Year, Mademoiselle Magazine (1971)

• Woman of the Year, Ladies Home Journal (1972)

• National Association of Radio and Television Announcers Award for Best Spoken Word Album, for Truth Is on Its Way (1972)

• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1968)

• Harlem Cultural Council (1969)

• National Association of Radio and Television Announcers Award for Best Spoken Word Album, for Truth Is on Its Way (1972)

• National Association of Radio and Television Announcers Award for Best Spoken Word Album

• National Book Award Nomination for Gemini (1973)

• Life Membership & Scroll, The National Council of Negro Women (1973)

• Woman of the Year, Cincinnati YWCA (1983)

• The Ohio Women's Hall of Fame (1985)

• Outstanding Woman of Tennessee (1985)

• Duncanson Artist in Residence, The Taft Museum (1986)

• The Post-Corbett Award (1986)

• The Post-Corbett Award (1986)

• The Children's Reading Roundtable of Chicago Award for Vacation Time (1988)

• The Ohioana Library Award for Sacred Cows (1988)

• The Children's Reading Roundtable of Chicago Award for Vacation Time (1988)

• The Ohioana Library Award for Sacred Cows (1988)

• The Cecil H. and Ida Green Honors Chair, Texas Christian University (1991)

• The Hill Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota (1993)

• Tennessee Writer's Award, The Nashville Banner (1994)

• The Tennessee Governor's Award in the Humanities (1996)

• The Langston Hughes Award for Distinguished Contributions to Arts and Letters (1996)

• Parents' Choice Award for The Sun Is So Quiet (1996)

• Artist-in-Residence. The Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts (1996)

• Contributor's Arts Award, The Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing (1996)

• Living Legacy Award, Juneteenth Festival of Columbus, Ohio (1998)

• Distinguished Visiting Professor, Johnson & Wales University (1998)

• The Appalachian Medallion Award (1998)

• Cincinnati Bi-Centennial Honoree (1998)

• The Tennessee Governor's Award in the Arts (1998)

• National Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent, the Gwendolyn Brooks Center of Chicago State University (1998)

• Inducted into The Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent (1999)

• United States Senate Certificate of Commendation (2000)

• 2000 Council of Ideas, The Gihon Foundation (2000)

• Virginia Governor's Award for the Arts (2000)

• The Rosa Parks Women of Courage Award, first recipient (2001 and again in 2002)

• The SHero Award for Lifetime Achievement (2002)

• American Library Association's Black Caucus Award for Non-fiction for (2003)

• Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, Delta of Tennessee chapter, Fisk University (2003)

• Named a History Maker (2003)

• The East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame Award (2004)

• Finalist, Best Spoken Word Grammy (2004)

• A species of bat named in her honor (Micronycteris giovanniae) (2004)

• Named one of Oprah Winfrey's 25 Living Legends (2005)

• Poet-In-Residence, Walt Whitman Birthplace Association Award (2005)

• Child Magazine Best Children's Book of the Year (2005)

• John Henry "Pop" Lloyd Humanitarian Award (2005)

• ALC Lifetime Achievement Award (2005)

• Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (Honorary Member) (2006)

• Caldecott Honor Book Award (2006)

• Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2007)

• The National Council of Negro Women Appreciation Award (2007)

• The Legacy Award, National Alumni Council United Negro College Fund (2007)

• Legends and Legacies Award (2007)

• Women of Power Legacy Award (2008)

• National Parenting Publications Gold Award (2008)

• Sankofa Freedom Award (2008)

• American Book Award honoring outstanding literary achievement from the diverse spectrum of the American literary community (2008)

• Literary Excellence Award (2008)

• Excellence in Leadership Award from Dominion Power (2008)

• Ann Fralin Award (2009)

• Carter G. Woodson Book Award (2009)

• Moonbeam Children's Book Award (2009)

• Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Dedication and Commitment to Service (2009)

• Art Sanctuary's Lifetime Achievement Award (2010)

• Presidential Medal of Honor, Dillard University (2010)

• Affrilachian Award (2011)

• Library of Virginia's Literary Lifetime Achievement Award (2016)

• Maya Angelou Lifetime Achievement Award (2017)

作品

詩集

• Black Feeling, Black Talk (1968)

• Black Judgement (1968)

• Re: Creation (1970)

• Black Feeling, Black Talk/ Black Judgement (contains Black Feeling, Black Talk, and Black Judgement) (1970)

• My House (1972)

• The Women and The Men (1975)

• Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (1978)

• Woman (1978)

• Those Who Ride The Night Winds (1983)

• Knoxville, Tennessee (1994)

• The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni (1996)

• Love Poems (1997)

• Blues: For All the Changes (1999)

• Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems (2002)

• The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni (2003)

• The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 (2003)

• Acolytes (2007)

• Bicycles: Love Poems (2009) (William Morrow)

• 100 Best African American Poems (2010) [editor] (Sourcebooks MediaFusion)

• Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid (2013) (HarperCollins)

児童書

• Spin a Soft Black Song (1971)

• Ego-Tripping and Other Poems For Young People (1973)

• Vacation Time: Poems for Children (1980)

• Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People Revised Edition (1993)

• • The Genie in The Jar (1996)

• The Sun Is So Quiet (1996)

• The Girls in the Circle (Just for You!) (2004)

• Rosa* (2005)

• Poetry Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (2005) [advisory editor] (Sourcebooks)

• Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship (2008)

• Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (2008) (Sourcebooks)

• The Grasshopper's Song: An Aesop's Fable (2008)

• I Am Loved (2018)

ディスコグラフィー

• Truth Is On Its Way (Right On Records, 1976)

• The Reason I Like Chocolate (Folkways Records, 1976)

• Legacies: The Poetry of Nikki Giovanni (Folkways, 1976)

• Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (Folkways, 1978)

• Nikki Giovanni and the New York Community Choir* (Collectibles, 1993)

• Every Tone A Testimony (Smithsonian Folkways, 2001)

• The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection (2002)

その他

• (Editor) Night Comes Softly: An Anthology of Black Female Voices, Medic Press (1970)

• Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet* (1971)

• A Dialogue with James Baldwin* (1973)

• (With Margaret Walker) A Poetic Equation: Conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker* (1974)

• (Author of introduction) Adele Sebastian: Intro to Fine (poems), Woman in the Moon (1985)

• Sacred Cows ... and Other Edibles (essays)* (1988)

• (Editor, with C. Dennison) Appalachian Elders: A Warm Hearth Sampler* (1991)

• (Author of foreword) The Abandoned Baobob: The Autobiography of a Woman* (1991)

• Racism 101* (essays, 1994)

• (Editor) Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories about the Keepers of Our Traditions* (1994)

• (Editor) Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance through Poems* (1995)

• (Editor) 100 Best African American Poems (2010)

• (Afterword) Continuum: New and Selected Poems by Mari Evans (2012)

• (Foreword) Heav'nly Tidings From the Afric Muse: The Grace and Genius of Phillis Wheatley by Richard Kigel (2017)(Foreword)

• (Featured Artist) Artemis 2017 (Academic Journal of southwest Virginia) (2017)

• (Foreword) Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018)

外部リンク

• Giovanni's website

• Profile at Lavin

• 図書館にあるMiepopo/sandboxに関係する蔵書一覧 - WorldCatカタログ

• Profile and poems of Nikki Giovanni at the Poetry Foundation.

• Nikki Giovanni: Profile and Poems at Poets.org

• Giovanni Discography at Smithsonian Folkways

• "Interview with poet Nikki Giovanni" for the WGBH series Say Brother

• Miepopo/sandbox - C-SPAN（英語）

• • Booknotes interview with Giovanni on The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998, February 8, 2004.

• Pin His Ear to the Wisdom Post Nikki Giovanni named the first Coretta Scott King Fellow, video, April 3, 2009

• "We are Virginia Tech" - convocation poem read by Giovanni

• • MSNBC video

• • MP3 Audio

• Amy Goodman sits down with activist, poet and scholar Nikki Giovanni at Virginia Tech, October 3, 2012 on Democracy Now!

• Nikki Giovanni on 1 Year Since Newtown: Where is the Political Leadership on Gun Control?, December 16, 2013 on Democracy Now!

• Nikki Giovanni on Poetry, Grief and Her New Book, "Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid",  December 16, 2013 on Democracy Now!