The Giovanni Collective

The Giovanni Collective Black Women Poets curating writing, performance, and professional development experiences.

Today’s the day!!! The Giovanni Collective & Friends take the stage for our special performance at the Columbus Arts Fes...
06/08/2025

Today’s the day!!! The Giovanni Collective & Friends take the stage for our special performance at the Columbus Arts Festival!

The sun will be shining just in time for our set ☀️ You REALLY don’t want to miss this 🤗

📍Word is Art and Acoustic Stage in the courtyard of the Priscilla R. Tyson Cultural Arts Center

139 W. Main Street, Columbus, OH 43215

The Columbus Arts Festival kicked off today, which means only 2 more sleeps until we hit the stage!Beat us there!
06/06/2025

The Columbus Arts Festival kicked off today, which means only 2 more sleeps until we hit the stage!

Beat us there!

We are so back!!!! The Giovanni Collective will once again take the stage at the Columbus Arts Festival this Sunday, Ju...
06/03/2025

We are so back!!!! The Giovanni Collective will once again take the stage at the Columbus Arts Festival this Sunday, June 8 at 2:00pm!!

📍Word is Art Stage Word is Art and Acoustic Stage in the courtyard of the Priscilla R. Tyson Cultural Arts Center

(139 W. Main Street, Columbus, OH 43215).

📚Our bad! We definitely left you hanging on the text collection. But today is a new day and we are women of our word. En...
05/02/2025

📚
Our bad!
We definitely left you hanging on the text collection. But today is a new day and we are women of our word. Enjoy more of our favorite texts into May and beyond✨

1. Song of My Softening by Omotara James
2. Black Girl Call Home by Jasmine Mans
3. Magical Negro by Morgan Parker
4. Remedies for Disappearing by Alexa Patrick
5. Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah by Patricia Smith
6. New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby
7. TwERK by Natasha Diggs
8. Bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward
9. The Geez by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
10. Concentrate by Courtney Faye Taylor

30/30 Prompt: Begin Again“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” ✍🏾 Think about a time when somet...
04/30/2025

30/30

Prompt: Begin Again

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”

✍🏾 Think about a time when something in your life came to an end (a meal, a relationship, a film). Write about what came next, specifically from that thing ending.

29/30 Prompt: Blast from the Past✍🏾 Think about where you were in April of 2020. The world was shutting down and we we...
04/29/2025

29/30

Prompt: Blast from the Past

✍🏾 Think about where you were in April of 2020. The world was shutting down and we were making promises to all the gods to spare our lives. Write a poem in the form of a message to your 2020 self.

28/30 Prompt: Scratch That✍🏾 Take song lyrics and turn it into an erasure poem. Extra credit if your new poem complete...
04/29/2025

28/30

Prompt: Scratch That

✍🏾 Take song lyrics and turn it into an erasure poem. Extra credit if your new poem completely changes the meaning from the original version.

27/30 Prompt: When the Ancestors say “enough”✍🏾 Name a time when you had to make a substitution in a recipe (oil inst...
04/28/2025

27/30

Prompt: When the Ancestors say “enough”

✍🏾 Name a time when you had to make a substitution in a recipe (oil instead of butter, water instead of milk, grease instead of edge control) and describe how things turned out. What lessons did you learn? What improvements did you make to the original recipe?

26/30 I remember when I first learned that there were green oranges. It took me a full afternoon to get my mind around...
04/28/2025

26/30

I remember when I first learned that there were green oranges. It took me a full afternoon to get my mind around that fact. I thought about what else exists in the world that is different from what I’ve always understood it to be.

Prompt: Cross Colors

✍🏾 Write a poem about something that has a different color than what you’ve always understood. Green oranges, silver teeth, purple daisies. The chosen item can be real (this might make for a fun research project) or imagined.

25/30 Prompt: Picture This✍🏾 Take a new photo and look at it for 30 mins. Jot down whatever details you see. Walk away...
04/25/2025

25/30

Prompt: Picture This

✍🏾 Take a new photo and look at it for 30 mins. Jot down whatever details you see. Walk away from the photo. When you come back to it, look for another 30 minutes and jot down any new details you hadn’t noticed before. Now write a poem about the photo using the details that have emerged. 

Address

Columbus, OH

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when The Giovanni Collective posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

Share

Category