The Works of Nikki Giovanni

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Poetry

• Black Feeling Black Talk (1968)
• Black Judgement (1968)
• Re: Creation (1969)
• Poem of Angela Yvonne Davis (1969)
• My House (1972)
• The Women and The Men (1975)
• Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (1978)
• Those Who Ride the Night Winds (1983)
• Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni (1996)
• Love Poems (1997)
• Blues: For All the Changes (1999)
• Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems (2002)

Children’s Poetry

• Spin a Soft Black Song (1971)
• Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People (1973, 1993)
• Vacation Time: Poems for Children (1979)
• Knoxville, Tennessee (1994)
• The Genie in the Jar (1996)
• The Sun is So Quiet (1996)

Records, Tapes and CDs

• Truth is On Its Way (with Gospel Music) (1971)
• Like A Ripple On A Pond (with Gospel Music) (1973)
• The Way I Feel (with Jazz) (1975)
• Legacies (1976)
• The Reason I Like Chocolate (1976)
• Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (1978)
• “Stealing Home: For Jack Robinson.” Jackie Robinson: Stealing Home (A Musical Tribute)
• Nikki Giovanni in Philadelphia (1997)

Film

• Spirit to Spirit. Directed by Mirra Banks. Perrin Ireland, Producer. PBS Television. (1987)

Essays and Conversations

• Night Comes Softly: Anthology of Black Female Voices (ed.) (1970)
• Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five years of Being A Black Poet. (1971)
• A Dialogue: James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni (1973)
• A Poetic Equation: Conversations Between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker (1974)
• Sacred Cows…And Other Edibles (1988)
• Appalachian Elders: A Warm Hearth Sampler (ed.) (1991)
• Grand Mothers: A Multicultural Anthology of Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories About the Keepers of Our Traditions (ed.) (1994)
• Racism 101 (1995)
• Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance Through Poems (1996)
• Grand Fathers: Reminiscences, Poems, Recipes, and Photos of the Keepers of our Traditions (ed.) (1999)

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