Nikky Finney's latest work, Head Off & Split has received wonderful reviews and is climbing the Poetry Foundation's Contemporary Best Sellers list.

"With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What makes this book as important as anything published in the last decade is the irresistible music, the formal dexterity and the imaginative leaps she makes with metaphor and language in these simply stunning poems. This is a very, very important achievement."

- Kwame Dawes, author of Hope's Hospice

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Upcoming Events

May 13: Nikky Finney & Pearle Cleage: Conversations on Art & Activism - Atlanta, GA

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May 14: Nikky Finney at The South Carolina Book Festival - Columbia, SC

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There is a Facebook campaign to nominate Nikky Finney for the 49th U.S. Poet Laureate.

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