Exercise

BY Nikki Giovanni

I want to ride
on a train

I sometimes fly
In a jet plane

I love to cruise
In a big boat

I’d even float
In a green moat

Of course I could always
Bike

And for health reasons
Hike

But if I had my druthers

I’d get my exercise

In your arms

 

Biography

NIKKI GIOVANNI is the recipient of seven NAACP Image Awards for her poetry. She has been awarded The Langston Hughes Medal for Poetry and is the first recipient of The Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award. Tennessee, her birth state, has placed an Historic Marker at 400 Mulvaney Street, the home of her grandparents, where she lived during her teen years. She was invited to create the poem, “At This Moment,” celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. In 2008, Hip Hop Speaks to Children, Lincoln and Douglas: An American Friendship, and The Grasshopper’s Song were published, as well as a collection of poetry for adults, Bicycles, which earned a NAACP Image Award. The 100*Best African American Poems (*But I Cheated) was published in 2010 and included a CD of readings by Ruby Dee Novella Nelson and Sonia Sanchez, among others. She also produced the DVD VT READS celebrating The Steger Poetry Prize at Virginia Tech and co-produced 73 (Poems) for 73 (Years): The Lucille Clifton Memorial Reading.

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