Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni, the author of more than twenty books of poetry and children’s stories, has won numerous awards, including multiple NAACP Image Awards, the Langston Hughes Award for Distinguished Contributions to Arts and Letters, and the Rosa L. Parks Women of Courage Award.
A poem from the Spring 2018 issue.
I know we are happy
To hold them in our arms
Watching
Them squizzle
A poem from the 18th Southern Music Issue: Visions of the Blues.
Some folk think the blues
Is a song or a way
Of singing
But the blues is
History
