6/30/2023 0 Comments Nikki giovanni a good cry poemIn her early work, Giovanni expressed the militant themes of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni then enrolled in an MFA program at Columbia in 1969. From 1967 to 1968, she studied social work at the University of Pennsylvania. She graduated magna cum laude in February 1967 with BA in history. Before taking graduate courses at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia, Giovanni organized the Black Arts Festival in Cincinnati. Giovanni also restored Fisk’s chapter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Giovanni returned to Fisk four years later and participated in the Fisk Writing Workshops directed by then writer-in-residence John Oliver Killens. She was dismissed after her first semester for failing to conform to the university’s conservative standards. In 1960, Giovanni enrolled at Fisk University. Her older sister, Gary Ann, began to call Giovanni “Nikki” during childhood. Raised in Woodlawn, Ohio, north of Cincinnati, Giovanni was the youngest of two daughters. She was the daughter of Jones “Gus” Giovanni and Yolande Cornelia Giovanni (née Watson). Yolanda Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 7, 1943.
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