Nikki Giovanni: Poems Nikki Giovanni

Poetry collections

• Black Feeling, Black Talk (1968)[56]
• Black Judgement (1968)[57]
• Re: Creation (1970)[57]
• Black Feeling, Black Talk/Black Judgement (contains Black Feeling, Black Talk and Black Judgement) (1970)[57]
• My House (1972)[57]
• The Women and The Men (1975)[58]
• Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (1978)[57]
• Woman (1978)
• Those Who Ride The Night Winds (1983)[57]
• Knoxville, Tennessee (1994)[57]
• The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni (1996)[59]
• Love Poems (1997)[57]
• Blues: For All the Changes (1999)[60]
• Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems (2002)
• The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni (2003)
• The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 (2003)[57]
• Acolytes (2007)
• Bicycles: Love Poems (2009) (William Morrow)[57]
• 100 Best African American Poems (2010) [editor] (Sourcebooks MediaFusion)[57]
• Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid (2013) (HarperCollins)[57]
• A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter (2017) (William Morrow)
• Make Me Rain (2020)

Children's books

• Spin a Soft Black Song (1971)[57]
• Ego-Tripping and Other Poems For Young People (1973)[57]
• Vacation Time: Poems for Children (1980)[57]
• Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People Revised Edition (1993)
  • The Genie in The Jar (1996)
• The Sun Is So Quiet (1996)[57]
• The Girls in the Circle (Just for You!) (2004)
• Rosa* (2005)
• Poetry Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (2005) [advisory editor] (Sourcebooks)
• Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship (2008)[57]
• Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (2008) (Sourcebooks)
• The Grasshopper's Song: An Aesop's Fable (2008)
• I Am Loved (2018)
• A Library (2022) Illustrated by Erin K. Robinson

Discography

• Truth Is On Its Way (Right-On Records, 1971)[61]
• Like a Ripple on a Pond (Niktom, 1973)
• The Way I Feel (Niktom, 1975)
• The Reason I Like Chocolate (Folkways Records, 1976)[61]
• Legacies: The Poetry of Nikki Giovanni (Folkways, 1976)[61]
• Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (Folkways, 1978)[61]
• Nikki Giovanni and the New York Community Choir* (Collectibles, 1993)[61]
• Every Tone A Testimony (Smithsonian Folkways, 2001)[61]
• The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection (2002)[61]
• The Gospel According To Nikki Giovanni (Solid Jackson, 2022) with Javon Jackson

Other

• (Editor) Night Comes Softly: An Anthology of Black Female Voices, Medic Press (1970)[62]
• Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet (1971)[63]
• A Dialogue with James Baldwin (1973)[64]
• (With Margaret Walker) A Poetic Equation: Conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker (1974)[65]
• (Author of introduction) Adele Sebastian: Intro to Fine (poems), Woman in the Moon (1985)[66]
• Sacred Cows ... and Other Edibles (essays) (1988)[67]
• (Editor, with C. Dennison) Appalachian Elders: A Warm Hearth Sampler (1991)[68]
• (Author of foreword) The Abandoned Baobob: The Autobiography of a Woman (1991)
• Racism 101* (essays, 1994)
• (Editor) Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories about the Keepers of Our Traditions (1994)[69]
• (Editor) Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance through Poems (1995)[26]
• (Editor) 100 Best African American Poems (2010)[70]
• (Afterword) Continuum: New and Selected Poems by Mari Evans (2012)
• (Foreword) Heav'nly Tidings From the Afric Muse: The Grace and Genius of Phillis Wheatley by Richard Kigel (2017)(Foreword)
• (Featured Artist) Artemis 2017 (Academic Journal of southwest Virginia) (2017)[71]
• (Foreword) Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018)