Nikki Giovanni - The Hilltop https://staging.thehilltoponline.com The Nation's Oldest Black Collegiate Newspaper Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:48:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-NewHilltopLogo-32x32.jpg Nikki Giovanni - The Hilltop https://staging.thehilltoponline.com 32 32 248273635 Renowned Poet Nikki Giovanni Retires From Education After 35 Years https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/2022/09/19/renowned-poet-nikki-giovanni-retires-from-education-after-35-years/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=renowned-poet-nikki-giovanni-retires-from-education-after-35-years Mon, 19 Sep 2022 13:00:00 +0000 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/?p=15923 Nikki Giovanni, an internationally-known writer and poet who has also worked as an English professor at Virginia Tech (VT), recently announced her retirement after being a part of the school’s faculty for 35 years.   “It is hard to imagine the Department of English and the Creative Writing Program here at Virginia Tech without University Distinguished […]

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]]> 15923 Nikki Giovanni Inducted as the First Writer-in-Residence of the Toni Morrison Writing Program at Prairie View A&M University  https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/2021/10/04/nikki-giovanni-inducted-as-the-first-writer-in-residence-of-the-toni-morrison-writing-program-at-prairie-view-am-university/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nikki-giovanni-inducted-as-the-first-writer-in-residence-of-the-toni-morrison-writing-program-at-prairie-view-am-university Mon, 04 Oct 2021 13:33:40 +0000 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/?p=14061 On Sept. 27, poet, activist, educator and HBCU graduate, Nikki Giovanni became the first writer-in-residence of the Toni Morrison Writing Program at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), a public HBCU in rural Texas.

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