Works by
Nikki Giovanni
(Poet, Writer)

Poetry

• Black Feeling, Black Talk (1968)

• Black Judgement (1968)

• Black Feeling, Black Talk/Black Judgement  (1970)

• Re: Creation (1970)

• Poem of Angela Yvonne Davis (1970) with Charles Bible, Illustrator

• My House (1972)

• The Women and the Men (1975)

• Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (1978)

• Those Who Ride the Night Winds (1983)

• The 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)

• The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni (2003)

• The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni (2003)

• Acolytes (2007 release)

Children's Poetry

• Spin a Soft Black Song (1971)

• Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People (1973)

• Vacation time: Poems for Children (1980)

• Knoxville, Tennessee (1994)

• The Genie in the Jar (1996) with Christopher Raschka, Illustrator

• The Sun Is So Quiet (1996)

• The Girls in the Circle (Just for You!) (2004)

• Rosa (2005)

• The Grasshopper and the Ant (In Progress)

Essays

• Sacred Cows...and Other Edibles (1988)

• Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, And Short Stories About The Keepers Of Our Traditions (1994)

• Racism 101 (1994)
  In Racism 101, Nikki Giovanni indicts higher education for the inequities it perpetuates, contemplates the legacy of the 1960s, provides a survival guide for black students on predominantly white campuses (complete with razor-sharp comebacks to the dumb questions constantly asked of black students), and excoriates Spike Lee while offering her own ideas for a film about Malcolm X. And that's just for starters. She also writes about W.E.B. Du Bois, gardening, Toni Morrison, Star Trek, affirmative action, President John F. Kennedy, the role of riots, and the rape and neglect of urban schools.
  
  Profoundly personal and blisteringly political, angry and funny, lyrical and blunt, Racism 101 will add an important chapter to the debate on American national values.

• Grand Fathers: Reminiscences, Poems, Recipes, and Photos of the Keepers of Our Traditions (1999)

Non-fiction

• A Poetic Equation: Conversations Between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker (1974)

Audio

• The Way I Feel (1975, 1995)

• Truth Is on Its Way (1993)

• Like a Ripple on a Pond (1993)

• In Philadelphia (1997)

• Poems (2002)

See also:

• Conversations With Nikki Giovanni (1992) by Virginia C. Fowler

• Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom: "The Same Ol Danger but a Brand New Pleasure" (1999) by Carol Jago

• Nikki Giovanni (2000) by Judith Pinkerton Josephson

• Poetry Speaks to Children (2005) by Dominique Raccah and Elise Paschened, ed.
  With works by Billy Collins, Judy Love (Illustrator), Nikki Giovanni, Paula Zinngrabe Wendland (Illustrator), Wendy Rasmussen (Illustrator), and X.J. Kennedy