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Nikky Finney

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Nikky Finney is a founding member of the Affrilachian Poets and the John H. Bennett, Jr., Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina. She edited Black Poets Lean South and authored On Wings Made of Gauze, Rice, The World Is Round, Head Off & Split (winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Poetry), and Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry. Finney’s work, including her now legendary National Book Award acceptance speech, is on display in the inaugural exhibition of the African American Museum of History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

Nikky Finney Books

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Heartwood

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Perfect Black book cover

Perfect Black

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Vinegar and Char

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Our Prince of Scribes book cover

Our Prince of Scribes

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State of the Heart book cover

State of the Heart

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Conversations with the Conroys

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Found Anew

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Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems

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This Is My Century

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Hold Like Owls

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Heartwood

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