Nikki Giovanni through her work has become one of the most celebrated and controversial poets in the nation. In her three decade career she has published thirteen books of poetry. Giovanni's involvement to the Civil Rights Movement influenced her first three poem books. Throughout her career she has obtained many awards and titles for her poetry as well as for her demeanor.

Giovanni was born under the name of Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr. on June 7, 1943, in Knoxville Tennessee. Soon after she was born her family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio were she lived all her childhood. In 1957, she made the decision to move back to Knoxville, with her grandparents. There she attended Austin High School. She graduated early and enrolled at Fisk University, in Nashville, as and early entrant. In 1961, her grandfather Brown Watson died and caused her to be dismissed form Fisk and return to Cincinnati. In 1964, Giovanni reenters Fisk; were in three years she graduates. That same year in Cincinnati she organized the first Black Arts Festival. This festival was meant to create awareness of arts in the Black Community. The festival was held in The New Theater.

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Giovanni throughout her career has received many awards for her achievements and accomplishments, such as in 1971 she received the Highest Achievement Award From Mademoiselle magazine. 1972 Nikki Giovanni received the Award for Best Spoken Work Album from the National Association of Radio and Television Announcers. She received one of the eight Women of the Year awards given from the Ladies' Home Journal at Washington's Kennedy Center in 1973. She is named an honorary commissioner for the President's Commission on the International Year of the Child in 1979. In 1985 she is named the Outstanding Woman of Tennessee. A year later she receives the Post-Corbett Award, and the Detroit City Council gives her the Distinguished Recognition Award. In 1988 her book Sacred Cows .. And Other Edibles received the Ohioana Library Award.

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