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By Selena Stevens
As
the reigning "Princess of Black Poetry,"
Nikki Giovanni has received the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People's Image Award
and the Langston Hughes Medal for Outstanding Poetry.
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Oct.
26, 2001 (Lexington, Ky.) --
Nikki Giovanni, one of the most popular and celebrated
poets in the United States, will speak at the University
of Kentucky at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, in the
Student Center Grand Ballroom.
An author
and activist who speaks all over the country, Giovanni
has written more than a dozen volumes of poetry.
As the
reigning "Princess of Black Poetry," she has been
the recipient of an National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People's Image Award and the Langston Hughes
Medal for Outstanding Poetry.
Giovanni
is the author of "Racism 101," "Black Feeling Black
Talk," "Black Judgment," "Cotton Candy on a Rainy
Day," "Re: Creation" and "My House."
The event
is sponsored by the UK Angel Social Club, with the
help of the UK Women's Studies Program and others,
and is free and open to the public.
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