Nikki Giovanni is the author of several books of poetry, including most recently "Bicycles: Love Poems." "Nikki-Rosa" is taken from "The 100 Best African American Poems," edited by Giovanni and published in November.

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In today's arts and culture headlines, an American is charged with stealing bird skins from a British museum.

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New Yorker music critic Alex Ross' new book is "Listen to This." His previous book, "The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century," won a National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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In today's arts and culture news, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston celebrates a new addition.

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A (creative nonfiction) review of Keith Richard's new book, supposedly written by Mick Jagger, is mistaken for the real thing…

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Mike Birbiglia, a regular on PRI's "This American LIfe", has turned his one-man off-Broadway comedy show into a new book called "Sleepwalk With Me."…

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In today's arts and culture news, film producer Dino De Laurentiis has died at age 91.

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Here are some of this week's arts and culture stories from public broadcasting stations around the nation.

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In today's arts and culture news, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will return 19 artifacts to Egypt.

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"What Makes Us Smile?", an exhibit at Baltimore's American Visionary Art Museum, is a celebration of human joy as seen through an array of funny, happy or goofy drawings, paintings and sculptures, as well as the ever-present, ever-blowing, whoopee cushion…

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