The delightful Nikki Giovanni died on Dec. 9. It is a joy and a solace to relisten to this beloved conversation she had with Krista in 2016 – to experience her signature mix of high seriousness, sweeping perspective, and insistent pleasure. Her words and her spirit feel, if anything, more necessary now. In the 1960s, she was a poet of the Black Arts Movement that nourished civil rights. She became a professor at Virginia Tech, where she called forth beauty and courage after the 2007 shooting there — a precursor to violence that has become all too familiar in American life in the intervening years. And she was an adored voice to a new generation — an enthusiastic elder to all — at home in her body and in the world, even while she saw and exulted in the beyond of this tumultuous age of her lifetime.Nikki Giovanni was a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech. Some of her best known collections from which the readings in this show were taken include <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/10066/9780060099534">Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Black-Feeling-Talk-Judgement/dp/0688302947/">Black Feeling, Black Talk/Black Judgement</a>, and <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/10066/9780060724290">The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni</a>. Her final publications include <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/10066/9780062995292">Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose</a> and<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/10066/9780358387657"> A Library</a>.Find the <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/remembering-nikki-giovanni-we-go-forward-with-a-sanity-and-a-love/#transcript">transcript </a>for this show at onbeing.org.

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