I hope it's Nikki Giovanni Day. Forgive me for ringing and running after dropping my offering; it's been a big week for me and WHISPERshout. (More soon on my visits via Zoom to a 4th grade classroom in Sacramento, facilitated by our friend Patricia Franz!)
This is the one book I have, from 2002, of the many poems that have come by and struck me. It's signed, which is a treasure. But you know from reading the stories and looking at the photos online that while many were struck from afar, it seems many more were touched closely by Nikki's--
I know what I sense but don't find my words, so I'll use hers.
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Thanks to Linda at A Word Edgewise for hosting today--you know you'll find something lovely there! And it goes without saying that it would be good...to hold on to Nikki, just one so wonderful part of our chain.
Gonna keep that! Thanks for sharing it. Sounds like you are very busy, friend!
ReplyDeleteHow special to have a signed copy, Heidi! Thanks for sharing Nikki's poem.
ReplyDeleteLove the poem!! Nikki will be greatly missed.
ReplyDeleteWe can have lots of Nikki Giovanni days---this being the first. What a poet giant. I'm so fortunate to have also lived in her time. Aren't we all! I love, 'Swinging on a Rainbow.'
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