INTERVIEWS
"You’re gonna have to grow some wings," Furious Flower IV: The Worlds of Black Poetry podcast
Writing Toward Place: Inspiration From The World Around Us, Coastal Heritage Magazine
Bulletproof Music: Kronos Quartet and poet Nikky Finney to record “At War with Ourselves," Style Weekly
Nikky Finney finds the right words for a 400-year history, South Carolina Public Radio
Interview with The Sewanee Review Podcast
Episode 100: Present in Courage with Nikky Finney, The PEN America Podcast
Between the Covers, interview with David Naimon, Tin House
I Come From Love, interview with Helena de Groot for Poetry Off The Shelf, The Poetry Foundation
Healing words: poets and the pandemic, WHYY Radio Times
The Minglement of Nikky Finney: The Architecture of a Poet, Blood Orange Review
National Book Award Winner Nikky Finney is the 2020 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence, The Daily Tar Heel
The Occasional Poet, The Well, University of North Carolina
The Occasional Poet: An Interview with Nikky Finney, Scalawag Magazine
Why Social Disconnect Helps To Fan The Flames Of Bigotry, National Public Radio, Morning Edition
A Conversation Between Nikky Finney and Donika Kelly, LA Review of Books
The Conversation: Poet, activist and athlete Nikky Finney, Interview with ESPNw
Interview with Nikky Finney: Say Harder Things Tender, Teachers & Writers Magazine
Finding a Window, Interview with Kimberly Reyes, The Poetry Foundation [PDF]
"Nikky Finney Ponders the Possibility of the Poetry Profession," Interview with Neal Conan, National Public Radio
Nikky Finney: Interview with Cara Dees of the Nashville Review [PDF]
The Beauty & Difficulty of Poet Nikky Finney An audio interview with Noah Adams, National Public Radio
So I Became a Witness: An Interview with Joshua Barnes from Sampsonia Way [PDF]
Advice from Nikky Finney, An Interview from the Gotham Writers' Workshop [PDF]
Art Talk with Nikky Finney: A National Endowment for the Arts Interview [PDF]
Nikky Finney Interview [audio .mp3 file] from UK at the Half
Award-Winner Nikky Finney On Life As A Poet [audio] from NPR's Talk of the Nation
Poet Nikky Finney hopes prestigious award illuminates arts' role in Kentucky [PDF] article from the Lexington Herlad-Leader
Winner Interview [PDF] from the National Book Foundation
Interview with: Nikky Finney [PDF] from the Oxford American
A new interview with Nikky Finney [audio] from WHYY Radio Times
Interview with Nikky Finney [audio] on Aspen Public Radio
Interview with Nikky Finney [audio] on Blog Talk Radios
A conversation with Nikky Finney & Katerina Stoykova-Klemer [audio] on Accents Radio
ARTICLES
Ernest A. Finney Jr. Cultural Arts Center to be ‘an incubating place’ for Black creatives, Free Times
National Book Awards concludes its final chapter at Concordia, the Concordian
Nikky Finney awarded Wallace Stevens Lifetime Achievement Award from The Academy of American Poets, poets.org
U of SC professor, poet Nikky Finney elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, U of SC News
Nikky Finney Defends the Art, The FAMUAN
First She Acquired an Esteemed Writer's House, Now His Chair [PDF] from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Poetry, Friendship, and an NBA: Editing “Head Off & Split” [PDF] from The Digital Digest.
Commentary on Head Off & Split by Terrance Hayes [PDF] from the National Book Foundation's Web site.
Galley Girl: Poet Nikky Finney Dazzles the National Book Awards [PDF] from Time Entertainment
2011 National Book Ward Winners Jesmyn Ward and Nikky Finnery Tackle Race and History [PDF] from the Huffington Post
S.C. native, Nikky Finney, wins National Book Award for poetry [PDF] from The State
Professor Nikky Finney wins National Book Award for Poetry [PDF] from The Kentucky Kernel
Nikky Finney's poetry nomination a triumph [PDF] from the Lexington Herald-Leader
Finney's poetry fuses the personal, political [PDF] from Tulsa World
Nikky Finney sings poetry of history, remebrance [PDF] from The Guilfordian
People's Poet Nikky Finney [PDF] from Ace Weekly