Sisters of the Desert Sun Read Nikki Giovanni

Sisters of the Desert Sun will be reading poet, Nikki Giovanni's work Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid for the September selection.  Members will also have the opportunity to attend An Evening of Poetry and Conversation with Nikki Giovanni at the Mesa Arts Center on Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 6:30 p.m. Find out more about what we're reading and other SDS activities at sistersofthedesertsun@gmail.com, Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads.

From the Publisher

Nikki Giovanni's poetry has spurred movements and inspired songs, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed as a healer and as a national treasure. But Giovanni's heart resides in the everyday, where family and lovers gather, friends commune, and those no longer with us are remembered. And at every gathering there is food—food as sustenance, food as aphrodisiac, food as memory. A pot of beans is flavored with her mother's sighs—this sigh part cardamom, that one the essence of clove; a lover requests a banquet as an affirmation of ongoing passion; homage is paid to the most time-honored appetizer: soup.

About Nikki

Nikki Giovanni, poet, activist, mother, and professor, is a seven-time NAACP Image Award winner and the first recipient of the Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award, and holds the Langston Hughes Medal for Outstanding Poetry, among many other honors. The author of twenty-eight books and a Grammy nominee for The Nikki Giovanni Collection, she is the University Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.