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Naomi Shihab Nye on What Inspires Her Poetry

By Naomi Shihab Nye — 2015

At the 2015 National Book Festival in Washington D.C., Academy Chancellor Naomi Shihab Nye joined us for a conversation about poetry and the poet's role in American culture today.

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Nikki Giovanni Reads Her Poem “Vote”

Nikki Giovanni is 77, a civil rights activist, a poet driven to give voice to the Black community, and a self-described “little old lady” with a tattoo that reads “thug life.” And this fall, she has one message (written in verse, of course): VOTE.​

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Nikki Giovanni
2020
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