Nikki Giovanni

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Poetry collections

  • Black Feeling, Black Talk (1968)
  • Black Judgement (1968)
  • Re: Creation (1970)
  • Black Feeling, Black Talk/ Black Judgement (contains Black Feeling, Black Talk, and Black Judgement) (1970)
  • My House (1972)
  • The Women and The Men (1975)
  • Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (1978)
  • Woman (1978)
  • Those Who Ride The Night Winds (1983)
  • Knoxville, Tennessee (1994)
  • The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni (1996)
  • Love Poems (1997)
  • Blues: For All the Changes (1999)
  • 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)
  • Acolytes (2007)
  • Bicycles: Love Poems (2009) (William Morrow)
  • 100 Best African American Poems (2010) [editor] (Sourcebooks MediaFusion)
  • Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid (2013) (HarperCollins)

Children's books

  • Spin a Soft Black Song (1971)
  • Ego-Tripping and Other Poems For Young People (1973)
  • Vacation Time: Poems for Children (1980)
  • Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People Revised Edition (1993)
    • The Genie in The Jar (1996)
  • The Sun Is So Quiet (1996)
  • 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)
  • 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)

Discography

  • Truth Is On Its Way (Right On Records, 1976)
  • The Reason I Like Chocolate (Folkways Records, 1976)
  • Legacies: The Poetry of Nikki Giovanni (Folkways, 1976)
  • Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (Folkways, 1978)
  • Nikki Giovanni and the New York Community Choir* (Collectibles, 1993)
  • Every Tone A Testimony (Smithsonian Folkways, 2001)
  • The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection (2002)

Other

  • (Editor) Night Comes Softly: An Anthology of Black Female Voices, Medic Press (1970)
  • Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet* (1971)
  • A Dialogue with James Baldwin* (1973)
  • (With Margaret Walker) A Poetic Equation: Conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker* (1974)
  • (Author of introduction) Adele Sebastian: Intro to Fine (poems), Woman in the Moon (1985)
  • Sacred Cows ... and Other Edibles (essays)* (1988)
  • (Editor, with C. Dennison) Appalachian Elders: A Warm Hearth Sampler* (1991)
  • (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)
  • (Editor) Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance through Poems* (1995)[18]
  • (Editor) 100 Best African American Poems (2010)
  • (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)
  • (Foreword) Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018)

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