January 14, 2021
Nikki Giovanni
βWe Go Forward With a Sanity and a Loveβ
It feels good and right this week to sit with the beloved writer Nikki Giovanniβs signature mix of high seriousness, sweeping perspective, and insistent pleasure. In the 1960s, she was a poet of the Black Arts Movement that nourished civil rights. Sheβs also a professor at Virginia Tech, where she brought beauty and courage after the 2007 shooting there. And sheβs an adored voice to a new generation β an enthusiastic elder to us all β at home in her body and in the world of her lifetime even while she sees and delights in the beyond of it.