'It is 1963 and I am a Black girl / in the South. THE WORLD IS ROUND opens all of my doors and windows and airs me out with a cold and truthful wind'Walter Mosley. Finney’s fourth book of poetry, Head Off & Split was awarded the 2011 National Book Award for poetry. Every now and then, I find myself in a room with a stage and there she is, reading poems, pulling me out pf myself and bringing me home. Chair in Southern Letters and Literature at the University of South Carolina, Finney also authored Heartwood (1997), edited The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (2007), and co-founded the Affrilachian Poets. Finney has authored four books of poetry: Head Off & Split (2011) The World is Round (2003) Rice (1995) and On Wings Made of Gauze (1985). At Talladega College, nurtured by Hale Woodruff’s Amistad murals, Finney began to understand the powerful synergy between art and history.
A child of activists, she came of age during the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements. The World Is Round, Nikky Finneys third volume of poetry, collects the wisps of memory we carry with. Nikky Finney was born in South Carolina, within listening distance of the sea. The World Is Round by Nikky Finney and Kevin Quashie available in Trade Paperback on, also read synopsis and reviews. Driskell Center will be released and the author will speak about her work and sign her limited edition artist book. An artist book of Finny’s poem “The Battle of and for the Black Face Boy” commissioned by the Artist Partner Program at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland printed in collaboration with the David C. Head Off & Split by Nikky Finney is the University of Maryland’s 2015-2016 First Year Book. Announcing Nikky Finney's visit to the Driskell Center for book signing event
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