Today, my article incorporating my telephone interview with Nikki Giovanni and her editor for her biographies, Laura Godwin, is posted over at I.N.K.: Interesting Nonfiction for Kids. In it, we discuss their latest joint project, Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship, as well as the fate of poetry and nonfiction in today's publishing market ( Read more... )

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I just interviewed Nikki Giovanni and her editor by telephone. That's right: Nikki freakin' Giovanni. She is charming and articulate and all the good things one would hope she might be, as was her editor, Laura Godwin. The results of that interview will eventually be posted here and there, meaning here at Writing and Ruminating and there at I.N.K.. ( Read more... )