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Joseph’s College (1985) and Mount Saint Mary College (1987). Makes a European lecture tour for USIA, visiting France, Germany, Poland, and Italy (1985). Is named to the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame (1985) and named Outstanding Woman of Tennessee (1985). Receives The Cincinnati Post ’s Post-Corbett Award and serves as Duncanson artist in residence at the Taft Museum in Cincinnati (1986). Is the subject of a PBS documentary, Spirit to Spirit (1987). Thomas graduates from high school and enlists in the Army. Accepts position as Commonwealth Visiting Professor of English at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, Virginia. Her mother moves to California to live with Gary. Serves on the Ohio Humanities Council. Judges the Robert F. Kennedy Book Awards.
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    Â 1988 Giovanni publishes Sacred Cows…and Other Edibles. Receives honorary doctorate from Fisk University.Cincinnati bi-centennial honoree. Spirit to Spirit receives the Silver Apple Award from the Oakland Museum Film Festival. Receives the Ohioana Library Award for Sacred Cows. McDonald’s institutes the Nikki Giovanni Poetry Award. USIA selects Spin a Soft Black Song for inclusion in its Exhibition to the Soviet Union. Vacation Time receives the Children’s Reading Roundtable of Chicago Award. National Festival of Black Storytelling initiates the Nikki Giovanni Award for Young African American Storytellers. Begins a writing group at Warm Hearth Village, a retirement home.
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    Â 1989–91 Giovanni accepts a permanent position as tenured full professor of English at Virginia Tech and relocates to Blacksburg, Virginia. Edits an anthology by her Warm Hearth writers group, Appalachian Elders: A Warm Hearth Sampler. Receives honorary doctorate from Indiana University. Attends Utrecht International Poetry Festival as the featured poet. “Two Friends” is incorporated as a permanent tile wall exhibit by the Oxnard Public Library in California. Thomas enrolls in Morehouse College. Continues to lecture on campuses across the country during the spring. Serves on the advisory board of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy (1990–96).
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    Â 1992–94 Giovanni publishes the twentieth-anniversary edition of Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young Readers (1993), which includes new poems. Publishes Racism 101 (essays) and Knoxville, Tennessee (illustrated children’s book). Edits and publishes Grand Mothers: A Multicultural Anthology of Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories About the Keepers of Our Traditions. Receives honorary doctorates from Otterbein College (1992), Rockhurst College (1993), and Widener University (1993). Featured Poet at Portland (Oregon) Art Beat Festival. Receives Community Volunteer of the Year Award from Warm Hearth Village. Writes and presents a poem commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Mount Vernon Slave Memorial (“ButSince You Finally Asked”). Conducts interview with the astronaut Mae Jemison for Essence magazine. Is Martin Luther King, Jr., Visiting Professor at the University of Oregon (1992). Is Hill Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota (1993). Continues to receive keys to the major cities in America; to date, these include Dallas, Miami, New York, New Orleans, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Mobile, and a dozen or so more. Receives the Tennessee Writer’s Award from the Nashville Banner. Thomas graduates magna cum laude from Morehouse College (1994). Her mother and sister relocate to Virginia (1994).
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    Â 1995 In mid-January Giovanni is diagnosed with lung cancer. Travels to Cincinnati for a second opinion and has surgery at Jewish Hospital. Receives honorary doctorates from Albright College and Cabrini College. Is a week-long writer in residence for the National Book Foundation’s Family Literacy Program at the Family Academy in Harlem. In summer is visiting professor at Indiana University, Kokomo.
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    Â 1996–97 Giovanni