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Nikky Finney is an award-winning, southern-born poet, whose critically acclaimed work is imbued with a distinct sense of lyricism and recurring themes of both social justice and communal history.
She was recently awarded the 2011 National Book Award for her latest collection Head Off & Split. Finney took some time to talk with Lambda Literary Review about her now famous National Book Award speech, shoe shopping with Condoleezza Rice, and the dividing line between art and rhetoric.
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Lesbian poet Nikky Finney won the 2011 National Book Award for poetry for her collection Head Off & Split. Finney was presented the poetry award on Wednesday, November 16 at the National Book Foundation sponsored ceremony in New York, NY. Read More
Imagine you wrote a book and it was shortlisted for the National Book Award. Imagine the excitement you would feel...
