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Nikky Finney

The National Book Awards Acceptance Speech for Poetry

June 14, 2013 by giarts-ts-admin

In 2011, the National Book Award for Poetry was presented to Nikky Finney for Head Off & Split (Triquarterly, 2011). Awards host John Lithgow called this “the best acceptance speech for anything I have ever heard.”

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We begin with history. The Slave Codes of SC, 1739:

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