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Published

September 24, 2020

You Were Gone

Written and read by Nikki Giovanni

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

“You Were Gone” from Those Who Ride the Night Winds by Nikki Giovanni. Copyright © 1999 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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