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Nikki Giovanni

Nikki Giovanni was born Yolande Cornelia Giovanni on June 7, 1943, in Knoxville, Tennessee to Yolande (Waston) Giovanni and Jones Giovanni. They soon moved to Cincinati, where both parents worked as house parents in a

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Featured Poem

Master Charge Blues

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

Charles Baudelaire especially admired three English language poets. Lord Byron was one and Edgar Allan Poe was another. Who is the third?

Answer

Alfred Tennyson. Baudelaire held him to be a great psychologist of the post-Romantic mindscape.

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