NEW YORK (AP) — Two months after her loss of life, poet Nikki Giovanni has been awarded one of many high honors for her artwork type, the Frost Medal for lifetime achievement.
The Poetry Society of America stated Wednesday that it had mentioned giving the prize to Giovanni earlier than her loss of life. Giovanni died in December and is being honored posthumously.
“Nikki Giovanni loomed as an essential and powerful figure in American literature and culture, the author of three dozen books of poetry, essays, and children’s writing,” the poetry society’s quotation reads partially. “With insight and stark intelligence, Giovanni’s written works articulate the highest hopes of our nation as a land where all are valued and all are free to be themselves and love who they wish to love.”
First introduced in 1930, the medal is called for Robert Frost and has been given to Wallace Stevens, Allen Ginsberg and Adrienne Wealthy amongst others.
