The Power of Listening to Nikki Giovanni’s ‘Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day’

Hearing her words, and her voice, makes the resonance that much deeper and the storytelling that much richer

Christina M. Tapper
ZORA
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3 min readFeb 11, 2021

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Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day is my favorite collection of poetry by Nikki Giovanni. It’s been about 13 years since I was first introduced to it, falling deeply in…

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Christina M. Tapper
ZORA
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