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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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Poem for Unwed Mothers

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

William Faulkner, Harold Pinter, and Samuel Beckett all won a Nobel Prize in literature. Which of them began a career as a poet?

Answer

All of them.

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