Criticism

Review of Sacred Cows … and Other Edibles. The Antioch Review 46, No. 3 (Summer 1988): 397.

States that Giovanni covers many subjects in a variety of tones.

Buchanan, Carol. Review of Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate, edited by Nikki Giovanni. Voya 19, No. 4 (October 1996): 229-30.

Remarks favorably on the collection and praises Giovanni's commentary.

Cook, William W. "The Black Arts Poets." In The Columbia History of American Poetry, edited by Jay Parini and Brett C. Millier, pp. 674-706. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

Describes Giovanni's role within the modern black poetry movement.

Cotter, James Finn. Review of Those Who Ride the Night Winds, by Nikki Giovanni. The Hudson Review XXXVII, No. 3 (Autumn 1984): 499-500.

Unfavorable review of Giovanni's poetry in Those Who Ride the Night Winds.

Millar, Neil. "Dancing Poetry, Chantable Verse." Christian Science Monitor 66, No. 110 (1 May 1974): F5.

Reviews Ego Tripping and argues that while the poems are original and zesty, some are full of hatred.

Ostriker, Alicia. "Of Being Numerous." Partisan Review XXXIX, No. 2 (Spring 1972): 270-75.

Discusses the revolutionary nature of the poems in Black Feeling, Black Talk, and Black Judgement.

Smith, Dale Edwyna. "The Mother Tongue." Belles Lettres 10, No. 2 (Spring 1995): 68-70.

Reviews the work of several African-American writers and praises Giovanni's Racism 101.