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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"We should all use time machines to go back and tell ourselves how cute we are in our twenties because everyone is, but we won't realize it until we're middle-aged."
With his new novel, Remembrance of Things I Forgot (University of Wisconsin Press), author Bob Smith becomes the ultimate genre mixer. The book is a time-traveling yarn, a political farce, a comedic examination of our recent past, and a heartrending tale of familial and romantic love.
Smith took some time to talk with Lambda Literary about his new novel, comedy writing and his own 80s past. Read More
A Note from the New Managing Editor Forgive me; I live in New York, so marriage has been on my...
