[Students] Nikki Giovanni

[Connie Mears]

Tickets are now available for Nikki Giovanni.  Nikki Giovanni is a Black
American poet, essayist, and lecturer, whose work has influenced many
throughout the years.  She is considered a leader in the Black Poetry
Movement.  Giovanni's poems first emerged during the Civil Rights and Black
Arts Movements of 1960.  Her work spans a period of three decades of
literally masterpieces.

 

Nikki Giovanni's performance is on Thursday, February 23 at 7:00 p.m. in
Ferguson Auditorium.  Students with current Texas A&M University-Commerce
identification receive one complementary ticket.  General Admission tickets
are $5.  Both student and general admission tickets are available at the
Memorial Student Center, Candy Corner from 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. (Monday -
Saturday) and 1:00 - 9:00 p.m. on Sunday.  For additional information on
ticket sales call 903-886-5400.  All other inquires regarding Nikki
Giovanni, call 903-886-5816.

 

Giovanni's visit is presented by the Office of Minority Affairs, NAACP and
Breakout Entertainment.

 

Writings by Giovanni:

*	Black Feeling, Black Talk (poetry) 1968
*	Black Judgment (poetry) 1968 
*	Night Comes Softly: An Anthology of Black Female Voices [editor]
(poetry) 1970 
*	Re: Creation (poetry) 1970 
*	Poem of Angela Yvonne Davis (poem) 1970 
*	Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First
Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet (essays) 1971 
*	Spin a Soft Black Song: Poems for Children (poetry) 1971 
*	My House (poetry) 1972 
*	A Poetic Equation: Conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret
Walker (nonfiction) 1974 
*	A Dialogue: James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni (nonfiction) 1973 
*	Ego Tripping and Other Poems for Young People (poetry) 1973 
*	The Women and the Men (poetry) 1975 
*	Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (poetry) 1978 
*	Vacation Time: Poems for Children (poetry) 1980 
*	Those Who Ride the Night Winds (poetry) 1983 
*	Sacred Cows ... and Other Edibles (essays) 1988 
*	Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories about the
Keepers of our Traditions (poetry, essays, and short stories) 1994 
*	Knoxville, Tennessee (poetry) 1994 
*	Racism 101 (nonfiction) 1994 
*	Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem
Renaissance through Poems (poetry) 1995 
*	The Genie in the Jar (poetry) 1996 

 

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