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size=3>Tickets are now available for Nikki Giovanni.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Nikki Giovanni is a Black American poet,
essayist, and lecturer, whose work has influenced many throughout the
years.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She is considered a leader
in the Black Poetry Movement.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Giovanni's poems first emerged during the Civil Rights and Black Arts
Movements of 1960.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Her work spans a
period of three decades of literally masterpieces.</FONT></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: red">Nikki Giovanni's performance is on Thursday,
February 23 at 7:00 p.m. in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Ferguson</st1:place></st1:City> Auditorium. </SPAN></I></B><FONT
size=3><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Students with current Texas
A&M University-Commerce identification receive one complementary
ticket.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>General Admission tickets
are $5.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Both student and general
admission tickets are available at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Memorial</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Student</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, Candy Corner from 8:00 a.m. -
10:00 p.m. (Monday - Saturday) and 1:00 - 9:00 p.m. on Sunday.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For additional information on ticket
sales call 903-886-5400.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All other
inquires regarding Nikki Giovanni, call 903-886-5816.</FONT></FONT></P>
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size=3>Giovanni's visit is presented by the Office of Minority Affairs, NAACP
and <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Breakout</st1:PersonName>
Entertainment.</FONT></P>
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size=3>Writings by Giovanni:</FONT></P>
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<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: red; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Black Feeling, Black Talk (poetry)
1968</SPAN></I><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><o:p></o:p></I></FONT></B></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: red; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Black Judgment</SPAN></I></B><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> (poetry)
1968 </SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></B></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: red; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Night Comes Softly: An Anthology of Black Female
Voices</SPAN></I></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> [editor]
(poetry) 1970 </SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></B></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: red; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Re: Creation</SPAN></I></B><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> (poetry)
1970 </SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></B></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: red; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Poem of Angela Yvonne Davis</SPAN></I></B><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> (poem)
1970 </SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></B></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: red; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on
My First Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet</SPAN></I></B><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> (essays)
1971 </SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></B></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: red; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Spin a Soft Black Song: Poems for
Children</SPAN></I></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> (poetry)
1971 </SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></B></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: red; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">My House</SPAN></I></B><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> (poetry)
1972 </SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></B></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: red; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A Poetic Equation: Conversations between Nikki
Giovanni and Margaret Walker</SPAN></I></B><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
(nonfiction) 1974 </SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></B></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: red; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN lang=FR
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: FR">A Dialogue: James Baldwin
and Nikki Giovanni</SPAN></I></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=FR
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: FR"> (nonfiction) 1973
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></B></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: red; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ego Tripping and Other Poems for Young
People</SPAN></I></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> (poetry)
1973 </SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></B></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: red; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Women and the Men</SPAN></I></B><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> (poetry)
1975 </SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></B></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: red; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day</SPAN></I></B><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> (poetry)
1978 </SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></B></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: red; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Vacation Time: Poems for Children</SPAN></I></B><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> (poetry)
1980 </SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></B></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: red; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Those Who Ride the Night Winds</SPAN></I></B><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> (poetry)
1983 </SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></B></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: red; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sacred Cows ... and Other Edibles</SPAN></I></B><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> (essays)
1988 </SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></B></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: red; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short
Stories about the Keepers of our Traditions</SPAN></I></B><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> (poetry,
essays, and short stories) 1994 </SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></B></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: red; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=3><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Knoxville</SPAN></I></B></st1:City><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">,
<st1:State w:st="on">Tennessee</st1:State></SPAN></I></B></st1:place><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> (poetry)
1994 </SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></B></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: red; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Racism 101</SPAN></I></B><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
(nonfiction) 1994 </SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></B></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: red; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking
at the <st1:place w:st="on">Harlem</st1:place> Renaissance through
Poems</SPAN></I></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> (poetry)
1995 </SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></B></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; COLOR: red; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Genie in the Jar</SPAN></I></B><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> (poetry)
1996 </SPAN><o:p></o:p></I></B></FONT></LI></UL>
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