NOTES ON MIGRATION

Stay in touch with Nikky through her "Notes on Migration". This personal essay series is posted through Nikky's Facebook page and archived here.

Bully
He doesn't want to be president and he certainly never intended to be ahead in the polls. This is a mistake that is now keeping him up at night. Read more.

Cecil
In Zimbabwe, a majestic 13-year-old endangered and beloved lion, with an unusual and recognizable black mane, named Cecil, was lured away from his safe lair in Hwange National Park. Read more.

The Juneteenth Father’s Day Solstice Pride Love Moon Weekend
Two days ago, on the weekend of June 19– 21, the weekend that our 150 year old cakewalk away from slavery, Juneteenth, was celebrated, on the very weekend we honored our persistent determined father. Read more.

PRESS KIT

Nikky's Press Kit, including her official biography and full-resolution photograph, is here.

PROJECTS & OTHER WRITING

Margaret Walker's For My People, featuring an introduction by Nikky Finney is available here, and an audio file is here.

My Dear Boy, Carrie Hughes's Letters to Langston Hughes, 1926–1938, features a foreward by Nikky, and it is available here.

Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems, by James Baldwin, released by Beacon Press, features an introduction by Nikky, and it is available here.

PRAISE FOR HEAD OFF & SPLIT

"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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