Throwback Thursday is a column on the Poetry Center Blog in which we present an author reading one poem from our voca archives. For more audio and video of poetry, including by the featured author, visit  voca.

This week: Nikki Giovanni reads "The Yellow Jacket" from her Poetry Center reading on September 26, 2006.

"The Yellow Jacket" from Poetry Center on Vimeo.

Image credit: Nikki Giovanni Photo by Christine Krikliwy 02/26/2006