What is Nikki Giovanni famous for?

Nikki Giovanni, who died at the age of 81 on Monday, was a world-renowned poet and one of the foremost authors of the Black Arts Movement.

She was famous for her notable books of poetry– Black Judgment (1968) and Those Who Ride the Night Winds (1983).

The two books were influenced by her participation in the Black Arts Movement and Black Power Movement in the 1960s.

She has published many poetries. Black Feeling Black Talk in 1968 and Love Poems in 2009 are among them.

Nikki Giovanni has written several works and literature and made multiple recordings. The Emmy-award nominated The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection in 2004 is among them.

Her most recent publications– The 100 Best African American Poems in 2010, Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose in 2020; and Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid in 2013.

Over two dozen volumes of poetry, essays, and edited anthologies and 11 illustrated children’s books have been published. The books include Rosa and an award-winning biography of Rosa Parks.

The famous poet has received the American Book Award, the inaugural Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award, the 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Langston Hughes Award, the Emily Couric Leadership Award, a Literary Excellence Award, the Virginia Governor’s Award for the Arts.

According to a statement from friend and author Renée Watson, Giovanni, also Well-known Virginia Tech professor, has died following her third cancer diagnosis.