Nikki Giovanni, poet and literary celebrity, has died at 81
NEW YORK -- Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first book to spending decades as a literary celebrity who shared blunt and conversational takes on everything from racism and love to space travel and mortality, has died. She was 81.
Giovanni read her poems about love, nostalgia and race to audiences around the world, but she never stopped loving.
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A plaque honoring Giovanni is located at the Cal Johnson Recreation Center, just across from where her grandparents lived.
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