This week Reshaping Culture highlights the life and legacy of Nikki Giovanni, one of poetry’s most revered and respected poets who influenced the culture of poetry. Her contribution to the poetic space will forever live within our hearts and minds.

Below is an excerpt from one of her many works may she “fly like a bird in the sky” throughout eternity :

A Poem of Friendship

“… I don't want to be near you
for the thoughts we share
but the words we never have
to speak
I will never miss you
because of what we do
but what we are together”

Nikki Giovanni

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