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Posted on May 21, 2018May 23, 2020

Nikki Giovanni Debut

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In celebration of the Phoenix Mars Lander’s 10th Anniversary on Mars, the Robinson Family Aerospace Mission is proud to feature a new poem of the world renowned poet and highly esteemed professor, Nikki Giovanni.

When the Music stopped

The man on the right ridiculed
Him
The man on the left
Believed

He had nothing else
To do
But hum a song
Which the Roman heard
Stop

“Cut him down”
and let his mother
And the Beloved Disciple
Take Him
To the Tomb

On Sunday
Of course
It was Empty

He had gone to Mars

Earth
Did not deserve
Him


Nikki Giovanni is a world renown poet and Distinguished Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She has been awarded with seven NAACP Image Awards and nominated for a Grammy. She has authored three New York Times and Los Angeles Times Best Sellers.

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