Read "An Interview with Poet Nikki Grimes" by Sylvia Vardell and Peggy Oxley which appeared in Language Arts, Volume 84, Number 3 in January, 2007.  (PDF)

Recent Books by Nikki Grimes:

Dark Sons, Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, 2005

Danitra Brown, Class Clown, illustrated by E.B. Lewis, Amistad, 2005

At Jerusalem's Gate, illustrated with woodcuts by David Frampton, William B. Eerdman's, 2005

It's Raining Laughter, photographs by Myles C. Pinkney, Wordsong / Boyds Mills Press, 2005

What is Goodbye? illustrated by Raul Colón, Hyperion Books for Children, 2004

A Day With Daddy, illustrated by Nicole Tadgell, Scholastic, May 2004

Tai Chi Morning, illustrated by Ed Young, Cricket Books, April 2004

Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman, illustrated by E.B. Lewis, Orchard Books/Scholastic, 2002

Under the Christmas Tree, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, HarperCollins, 2002

Bronx Masquerade, Dial Books for Young Readers/PenguinPutnam, 2002