Nikki Giovanni, University Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech, is the author of 27 books. Her work has spanned the themes of love and sex, anger and grief, race, politics, and violence, and in this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers and Giovanni discuss her book Bicycles: Love Poems. She also reads four poems from it. In addition, Moyers and Simon Johnson, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, examine President Obama’s economic recovery plan, discussing the roots of the crisis, the failures of the finance industry and the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and what may and may not work in the government’s latest attempt to fix the economy. Broadcast date: February 13, 2009. (57 minutes)