Nikky Finney
Nikky Finney
Reading Date: Thursday, February 7, 2019
- Welcome
- American Friends Service Committee, Tucson
- Introduction
- Opening Remarks
- "The World Is Round: the breast of the garment measured"
- "The Girlfriend's Train"
- "On the Occasion of Washing Clothes at the Laundromat and Being Approached by a Woman Wearing a Black Eye Who Told Me the Story of How My Hair Came to Be"
- "Black Boy with Cow: A Still Life"
- Question and Answer Session
Welcome-27692
by Diana Delgado
American Friends Service Committee, Tucson-27694
by Grace Gamez, Deborah North, Nate McKowen, and Joe Watson representing the American Friends Service Committee, Tucson
Annotation:
Clifton, Lucille. "won't you celebrate with me." The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010. Rochester: BOA Editions, 2012.
Introduction-27696
by Stephanie Troutman
Opening Remarks-27698
by Nikky Finney
"The World Is Round: the breast of the garment measured"-27700
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Finney, Nikky. The World Is Round. Atlanta: InnerLight Publishing, 2003.
"The Girlfriend's Train"-27702
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Finney, Nikky. The World Is Round. Atlanta: InnerLight Publishing, 2003.
"On the Occasion of Washing Clothes at the Laundromat and Being Approached by a Woman Wearing a Black Eye Who Told Me the Story of How My Hair Came to Be"-27704
From a manuscript titled Lovechild's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry, forthcoming in 2020.
"Black Boy with Cow: A Still Life"-27706
Uncollected.
Question and Answer Session-27708
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Series: Art for Justice, Spring Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): UA Poetry Center
Nikky Finney reads poems from her collections The World Is Round (2003) and Lovechild's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry (forthcoming in 2020). Finney also reads her new work titled "Black Boy with Cow: A Still Life" commissioned for the Poetry Center's Art for Justice series. Members of the American Friends Service Committee, Tucson give an introductory presentation.
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