" A poem by this author laments the focus on childhood memories like "living in Woodlawn with no inside toilet," concluding "they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy."
This author noted "LBJ has made it quite clear to make he doesn't give a good goddamn what I think" in the poem "A Historical Footnote to Consider Only When All Else Fails." In a poem by this author, the speaker says she likes summer best, because you can "be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep." A poem by this author laments the focus on childhood memories like "living in Woodlawn with no inside toilet," concluding "they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy." She delivered a chant-poem at a ceremony memorializing the victims of the (*) Virginia Tech massacre, since Seung- Hui Cho was one of her students. This poet's collections include Love Poems and Black Feeling, Black Talk. For 10 points, name this African-American poet who wrote "Knoxville, Tennesee" and "Nikki-Rosa."
This author noted "LBJ has made it quite clear to make he doesn't give a good goddamn what I think" in the poem "A Historical Footnote to Consider Only When All Else Fails."
Nikki Giovanni [or Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr.]