In 2007, Finney edited the anthology, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (University of Georgia Press/Cave Canem), which has become an essential compilation of contemporary African American writers. Her next full-length poetry collection, The World Is Round (Inner Light Books, 2003) was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Award sponsored by the Independent Booksellers Association. Finney's next full-length collection of poetry and portraits, RICE (Sister Vision Press, 1995), was awarded the PEN America-Open Book Award, which was followed by a collection of short stories entitled Heartwood (University Press of Kentucky, 1998). In 1985, and at the age of 26, Finney's debut collection of poetry, On Wings Made of Gauze, was published by William Morrow (a division of HaperCollins). With these instrumental eras circling her, Finney's work provides first-person literary accounts to some of the most important events in American history. The daughter of activists and educators, she began writing in the midst of the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements. Pick up an Ace now for gigs, movie times, calendar picks, food, astrology, real estate classifieds, help wanteds, and more.Ĭlick on sponsored links at left to purchase books included in this week’s issue.Nikky Finney was born at the rim of the Atlantic Ocean, in South Carolina, in 1957. Stories from Ace’s former art director, Michael Geneve, are included. On pages 4 and 5, you can read excerpts from Voices from the Peace Corps: Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers (Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series), recently published by University Press of Kentucky. You work for five or six years and then it comes back and you say okay now what do you do, which direction do you go? That’s totally different with this book.” I got in a car or walked or got on a plane and took it wherever I was going…I just never had this kind of beginning.
University of Kentucky Professor of Creative Writing, Nikky Finney, author of On Wings Made of Gauze, Rice, and The World Is Round, finds herself taken with the no holds barred launch of her new collection, “Anything that has happened for me and a book was because I put the book on my back. In this week’s Ace, on stands now, Bianca Spriggs sits down with poet Nikky Finney and talks about her new book, Head Off & Split: Poems.
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