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Born in June 7, 1943 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • Black Feeling, Black Talk, Broadside Press (Detroit, MI), 1968, 3rd edition, 1970.
  • Black Judgement, Broadside Press (Detroit, MI), 1968.
  • Black Feeling, Black Talk/ Black Judgement (contains Black Feeling, Black Talk, and Black Judgement), Morrow (New York, NY), 1970.
  • Re: Creation, Broadside Press (Detroit, MI), 1970.
  • My House, foreword by Ida Lewis, Morrow (New York, NY), 1972.
  • The Women and the Men, Morrow (New York, NY), 1975.
  • Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, introduction by Paula Giddings, Morrow (New York, NY), 1978.
  • Those Who Ride the Night Winds, Morrow (New York, NY), 1983.
  • The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni, 1968-1995, Morrow (New York, NY), 1996.
  • Love Poems, Morrow (New York, NY), 1997.
  • Blues: For All the Changes: New Poems, Morrow (New York, NY), 1999.
  • Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems, Morrow (New York, NY), 2002.
  • The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2003.
  • The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998, Morrow (New York, NY), 2003.  
  • Acolytes, William Morrow (New York, NY), 2007.
  • Bicycles: Love Poems, William Morrow (New York, NY), 2009.

WORK FOR CHILDREN

  • Poem of Angela Yvonne Davis, Afro Arts (New York, NY), 1970.
  • Spin a Soft Black Song: Poems for Children, illustrated by Charles Bible, Hill & Wang (New York, NY), 1971, illustrated by George Martins, Lawrence Hill (Westport, CT), 1985, revised edition, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1987.
  • Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People, illustrated by George Ford, Lawrence Hill (Chicago, IL), 1973.
  • Vacation Time: Poems for Children, illustrated by Marisabina Russo, Morrow (New York, NY), 1980.
  • Knoxville, Tennessee, illustrated by Larry Johnson, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1994.
  • The Sun Is So Quiet, illustrated by Ashley Bryant, Holt (New York, NY), 1996.
  • The Genie in the Jar, illustrated by Chris Raschka, Holt, 1996.
  • Girls in the Circle, illustrated by Cathy Ann Johnson, Scholastic (New York, NY), 2004
  • Rosa (children’s book), illustrated by Bryan Collier, Henry Holt (New York, NY), 2005.
  • Poetry Speak to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (guest contributor), Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2005.
  • Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship, illustrated by Bryan Collier, Henry Holt (New York, NY), 2008.
  • Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (audio CD), Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2008.

OTHER

  • (Editor) Night Comes Softly: An Anthology of Black Female Voices, Medic Press (Newark, NJ), 1970.
  • Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet, Bobbs-Merrill (Indianapolis, IN), 1971.
  • Truth Is on Its Way (album), Atlantis, 1971.
  • (With James Baldwin) A Dialogue: James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni, Lippincott (Philadelphia, PA), 1973.
  • Like a Ripple on a Pond (album), Collectibles, 1973.
  • (With Margaret Walker) A Poetic Equation: Conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker, Howard University Press (Washington, DC), 1974.
  • The Way I Feel (album), Atlantic, 1975.
  • Legacies—The Poetry Of Nikki Giovanni—Read By Nikki Giovanni (album), Folkways, 1976.
  • The Reason I Like Chocolate (And Other Children's Poems) (album), Folkways, 1976.
  • Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (album), Folkways, 1978.
  • (Author of introduction) Adele Sebastian: Intro to Fine (poems), Woman in the Moon, 1985.
  • Sacred Cows ... and Other Edibles (essays), Morrow (New York, NY), 1988.
  • (Editor, with C. Dennison) Appalachian Elders: A Warm Hearth Sampler, Pocahontas Press (Blacksburg, VA), 1991.
  • (Author of foreword) The Abandoned Baobob: The Autobiography of a Woman, Chicago Review Press (Chicago, IL), 1991.
  • Nikki Giovanni and the New York Community Choir (album), Collectibles, 1993.
  • Racism 101 (essays), Morrow (New York, NY), 1994.
  • (Editor) Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories about the Keepers of Our Traditions, Holt (New York, NY), 1994.
  • (Editor) Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance through Poems, Holt (New York, NY), 1995.
  • In Philadelphia (album), Collectibles, 1997.
  • Stealing Home: For Jack Robinson (album), Sony, 1997.
  • (Editor) Grand Fathers: Reminiscences, Poems, Recipes, and Photos of the Keepers of Our Traditions, Holt (New York, NY), 1999.
  • Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers (compilation), Rhino, 2000.
  • (Author of foreword) Margaret Ann Reid, Black Protest Poetry: Polemics from the Harlem Renaissance and the Sixties, Peter Lang (New York, NY), 2001.
  • The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection (CD), HarperAudio, 2002.
  • (Contributor) Breaking the Silence: Inspirational Stories of Black Cancer Survivors, Hilton Publishing (Munster, Indiana), 2005.

Contributor to Voices of Diversity: The Power of Book Publishing, a videotape produced by the Diversity Committee of the Association of American Publishers and Kaufman Films, 2002. Contributor to numerous anthologies. Contributor of columns to newspapers. Contributor to periodicals, including Black Creation, Black World, Ebony, Essence, Freedom Ways, Journal of Black Poetry, Negro Digest, and Umbra. Editorial consultant, Encore American and Worldwide News. A selection of Giovanni's public papers is housed at Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University.