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Nikky Finney
(2015)
  • Reinette F. Jones, University of Kentucky
Abstract

Nikky Finney was awarded the 2011 National Book Award in Poetry for Head Off and Split. She is a poet, author, co-founder of Affrilachian Poets, Guy Davenport Endowed Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, 1992-2012. Nikky Finney is a lesbian. [UK NKAA Database link http://nkaa.uky.edu/record.php?note_id=1024]

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Keywords
  • Nikky Finney,
  • Lesbians,
  • African Americans,
  • Affrilachian Poets
Publication Date
2015
Comments
Image loaned with permission from Nikky Finney
Citation Information
Reinette F. Jones. "Nikky Finney" (2015)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/reinette_jones/95/