Nikki Giovanni, The Love Poet

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Published January 15, 2009 at 12:00 PM EST

Award-winning poet and educator Nikki Award-winning poet and educator Nikki Giovanni has a new book of poems focusing on love. The legendary writer talks about her 27th work, Bicycles: Love Poems.

Giovanni, also a distinguished English professor at Virginia Tech, explains what influences her writings, and tells personal stories of love and loss.

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