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Audio by artist nikki_giovanni

From the Archives: Nikki Giovanni

Categories:

Prison issues
Racism
Spoken Arts

program:

Special Programming: Public Affairs

program date:

Tue, 09/01/2009

Here at KBOO, we're slowing digging through our archives to bring hidden gems to light in the digital era. While much of our archived audio is on reel-to-reel, we have some newer work on CD format that we're currently unearthing.

Here's a great example: Nikki Giovanni's 2002 appearance at Clark College. In addition to some great readings of her poems, she speaks candidly about slavery, Mars, aliens, black holes, and the Panama Canal.