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Published

September 29, 2020

The Life I Led

Written and read by Nikki Giovanni

Text is not available for this poem due to rights restrictions.

“The Life I Led” from The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni by Nikki Giovanni. Copyright © 2007 by Nikki Giovanni. Used with permission from the poet.

This poem was originally read in the On Being episode “Soul Food, Sex, and Space.”

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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 Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea, Black Feeling, Black Talk/Black Judgement, and The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni. Her final publications include Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose and A Library.

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