Poet of More Tolerant Tomorrows
Nikki Giovanni in 2008 speaking at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia (photo by Brett Weinstein-Flickr) This article first appeared on December 4, 1985 in the Los Angeles Times. Nikki Giovanni zoomed from one topic to another. Even after she scooted her petite body around the kelly green plastic table into a booth at her airport hotel’s coffee shop, the poet conveyed a sense of motion. She whipped out the first of many cigarettes, ordered coffee and leaped into the start of