WKU Events

Poetry reading followed by book signing.

In her career of more than 30 years, renowned poet and professor NIKKY FINNEY has written six books and hundreds of poems and essays that explore the experiences that have shaped life in the South for herself and countless other African Americans. Her poetry collection Head Off & Split won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2011. Her most recent collection, Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry (2020,) is an enduring love song to her father and 400 years of African American fight and ingenuity. Finney is Carolina Distinguished Professor at USC in Columbia where she is also Director of the Ernest A. Finney Jr. Cultural Arts Center. Free and open to the public.