Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni is an American poet whose work has made her one of the most important and renowned poets alive today. Giovanni was born on June 7, 1943, in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was raised near Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1960, Giovanni entered Fisk University, a historically black university in Nashville. Soon, however, she began to clash with the university's Dean of Women over some of the university's rules, which Giovanni believed to be overly conservative. In February of 1961, after...
