<I>The Spoken Word</I>
date: label: Date
content: 2003
name: label: Written by
content: Nikki Giovanni, American, 1943 - 2024
label: Owned by
content: Furious Flower Poetry Center, American, founded 1999
notes: label: Description
content: This is a broadside with reprints of two poems, hand signed by the author. Consisting of a long rectangular piece of cardboard with reddish brown text, it shows an image of a desk microphone at the center top margin. Next to the microphone are the words "the/ Spoken/ Word." Below the image are the words "Presented by The Camberly Collection/ January 24, 2003/ The Academy of Medicine/ Atlanta, Georgia." The two poems are presented down the center of the broadside. It is hand signed "Nikki Giovanni" in black ink at the last line of the bottom poem. Underneath the signature is the edition number, handwritten in black ink "205/400."
place: label: Place used
content: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Civil Rights
label: Topic
content: Humanitarianism
label: Topic
content: Literature
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Documents and Manuscripts
label: Movement
content: BAM (Black Arts Movement 1965-1976)
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Furious Flower Poetry Center, JMU
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.254.5
objectType: label: Type
content: broadsides
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © 1968, 2002 Nikki Giovanni
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 16 15/16 × 10 15/16 in. (43 × 27.8 cm)