“Ego-Tripping (there may be a reason why ... Finish story here; 10 Essential Nikki Giovanni Poems Everyone Should Read.

In the wake of Nikki Giovanni’s passing on Monday ... “I am so hip even my errors are correct,” Giovanni wrote in “Ego-Tripping,” from 1976, a song of the self that is equal parts ...

Nikki Giovanni, the iconic poet and activist ... Black Talk (1968), captured the fire of the Civil Rights Movement. Poems like Ego-Tripping, Knoxville, Tennessee, and Nikki-Rosa became classics ...