Tuesday, March 20, 2007

News at Eleven: [Nikki Giovanni responds,] "I don't feel futile,

but I don't think the powerful go to Barnes and Noble and ask for my book. . . .

"I think poetry's accomplishing what poetry's always accomplished," she says, remembering that people hung poetry from lampposts after Sept. 11. "It helps people think, and it provides a comfort."

Perhaps the poem "Revolutionary Dreams," from the 1970 collection Re:Creation, provides a clue:

from The Providence Journal: Personal, Political Poetry

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