![]() “Biographies.” Black Bone: 25 Years of the Affrilachian Poets, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2017, pp. Spriggs, Bianca Lynne, and Jeremy Paden, editors. Finney’s fourth book of poetry, Head Off & Split, was awarded the 2011 National Book Award for poetry. ![]() Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina, Finney also authored Heartwood (1997), edited The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (2007), and co-founded the Affrilachian Poets. A blazing canopy of newly minted Light fluttered in while we slept. ![]() All night the palmetto sky Was seized with the aurora And alchemy of the remarkable. Finney has authored four books of poetry: Head Off & Split (2011) The World Is Round (2003) Rice (1995) and On Wings Made of Gauze (1985). A Poem by Nikky Finney JBy Nikky Finney On the occasion of the Confederate flag falling in South Carolina, J It is the pearl-blue peep of day. At Talladega College, nurtured by Hale Woodruff’s Amistad murals, Finney began to understand the powerful synergy between art and history. Her next full-length poetry collection, The World Is Round (Inner Light Books, 2003) was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Award sponsored by the Independent. A child of activists, she came of age during the civil rights and Black Arts Movements. ![]() NIKKY FINNEY was born in South Carolina, within listening distance of the sea. ![]()
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