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Nikky Finney

About

Nikky Finney was born in South Carolina. Her newest collection, Love Child’s Hot Bed of Occasional Poetry, will be published by Northwestern University Press in April 2020.

Articles

Issue 90, Fall 2015

How "The Battle of and for the Black Face Boy" Came to Be

The horrific world of Black slavery of the nineteenth century is reported to have been emancipated, but instead it seems to have been simply modernized, by catastrophic, quotidian, state-sanctioned...

By Nikky Finney
Issue 90, Fall 2015

The Battle of and for the Black Face Boy

Four score and forever I am / told to never look him in / his eye.

By Nikky Finney
Issue 107, Winter 2019

Clara & Josephine

Young Josephine is hired to make // sure Clara’s makeup is tight, / to dress and dress (and undress) // Clara Smith, Blues woman.

By Nikky Finney